Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, milk-carton images of missing children, teenage slang, and surf music, Laurence Rickels offers a dizzying psychohistory of the twentieth century as crystallized in the symbolic configuration called California and considered in relation to German modernism, national socialism, and Freudian psychoanalysis.
- ISBN10 0816638780
- ISBN13 9780816638789
- Publish Date 15 May 2001
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English