TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Reading Willy Wonka in the era of anti-thinking
JO  - American journal of psychoanalysis
A1  - Miller, Ian S.
SP  - 113
EP  - 125
VL  - 78
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 "Willie Wonka" 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1573-6741
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s11231-018-9139-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -