@article{ref1,
title="Reading Willy Wonka in the era of anti-thinking",
journal="American journal of psychoanalysis",
year="2018",
author="Miller, Ian S.",
volume="78",
number="2",
pages="113-125",
abstract="Whether encountered as a movie or novel, Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a childhood staple of postwar Anglophone culture. Originally published in 1964, Dahl's story of &quot;Willie Wonka&quot; is a morality tale for our times addressed by the present essay in relation to the precariousness, violence, intergenerational faith, and materialist fantasies reflective of contemporary life in the early twenty-first century. Compensating for the precarity of contemporary life's impoverishment as assumptions of societal stability are overthrown, this chronicle of the Bucket family details: envious desire validated by large group chosen trauma; authoritarian enslavement of inferior, colonized peoples with murderous, industrial-level human experimentation; toward gratification of the greedy fantasy of unlimited sweetness under the sway of lethal identification with the aggressor.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1573-6741",
doi="10.1057/s11231-018-9139-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11231-018-9139-4"
}