Full Description
Navigating through classical Chinese fiction, Shakespearean characters, the arts, consumer society, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theories, interactions with computers at work, toy play, or law courts, this book provides a better understanding of the concept of childlikeness and highlights its continuing negotiation given its capacity to symbolize the character of our societies, notably our roles and degree of freedom within these roles.
Contents
Childlikeness in Adults / Mathieu Alemany Oliver and Russell W. Belk; Humans as a Neotenous Species / David Bjorklund; The Inner Child in Jungian Analytic Frameworks / Juliet Rohde-Brown; The Figure of the Trickster in Literature and Consumer Society Narratives: Liminality and Potentialities / Mathieu Alemany Oliver and Lorna Wilkinson; Childlike Minds and Childish Men: Dilemmas of Classical Chinese Fiction / Frances Weightman; Childlikeness and Art / Edwige Comoy Fusaro; Consumer Childlikeness / Mathieu Alemany Oliver and Russell W. Belk; From Playborer and Kidults to Toy Players: Adults Who Play for Leisure, Work, and Pleasure / Katriina Heljakka; Click to Disable: Infantilization in Terminal Interactions and/at Work / Simon Gottschalk; "Childishness" as Social Control / Yoad Eliaz; Notes on contributors; Index
