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"This is a collection of studies conducted in cross-cultural collaboration over the course of ten years that theorizes ""youth fantasy"" as manifested through the media of TV, film and computer games. The authors employ both Lacanian and Kleinian psychoanalytic concepts to attempt to make sense of teen culture and the influence of mass media. The collection includes case studies of ""X-Files"" fans, the influence of computer games and the ""Lara Croft"" phenomenon, and the reception of Western television by Tanzanian youth. The authors see this book as a much-needed reconciliation between cultural studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis, and attempt to highlight why Lacan is important to note when exploring youth fantasy and interest in the media, especially in shows like ""X-Files""."

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Youth Fantasies offers a new approach to the analysis of youth culture. Rather than inquiring into the effects of certain cultural activities of youth (such as whether playing violent video games makes kids more aggressive), jagodzinski examines such activities in order to ask, 'What do youth want?' That is, what basic, largely unconscious psychic needs or desires are youth trying to fulfill through their seemingly ubiquitous and endless engagements with various forms of media? jagodzinski 's rigorous Lacanian psychoanalytic exploration and theorizing of this question provides rich insights for educators and counsellors that no one concerned with youth or interested in Lacanian theory or postmodernity can afford to do without. --Mark Bracher, Professor and Director Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Kent State University <br> Stylish and succinct, sophisticated yet accessible, this stunning statement renders our (youth) fantasies simultaneously recognizable and intelligibl

Youth Fantasies offers a new approach to the analysis of youth culture. Rather than inquiring into the effects of certain cultural activities of youth (such as whether playing violent video games makes kids more aggressive), jagodzinski examines such activities in order to ask, 'What do youth want?' That is, what basic, largely unconscious psychic needs or desires are youth trying to fulfill through their seemingly ubiquitous and endless engagements with various forms of media? jagodzinski 's rigorous Lacanian psychoanalytic exploration and theorizing of this question provides rich insights for educators and counsellors that no one concerned with youth or interested in Lacanian theory or postmodernity can afford to do without. --Mark Bracher, Professor and Director Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Kent State University <br> Stylish and succinct, sophisticated yet accessible, this stunning statement renders our (youth) fantasies simultaneously recognizable and intelligible. --William F. Pinar, St. Bernard Parish Alumni Endowed Professor, Louisiana State University<br>

Youth Fantasies offers a new approach to the analysis of youth culture. Rather than inquiring into the effects of certain cultural activities of youth (such as whether playing violent video games makes kids more aggressive), jagodzinski examines such activities in order to ask, 'What do youth want?' That is, what basic, largely unconscious psychic needs or desires are youth trying to fulfill through their seemingly ubiquitous and endless engagements with various forms of media? jagodzinski 's rigorous Lacanian psychoanalytic exploration and theorizing of this question provides rich insights for educators and counsellors that no one concerned with youth or interested in Lacanian theory or postmodernity can afford to do without. --Mark Bracher, Professor and Director Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis, Kent State University <br> Stylish and succinct, sophisticated yet accessible, this stunning statement renders our (youth) fantasies simultaneously recognizable and intelligible.

'Provides rich insights for educators and counsellors so that no one concerned with youth or interested in Lacanian theory or postmodernity can afford to do without.' - Mark Bracher, Kent State University, USA

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JAN JAGODZINSKI is a Professor in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta. He is the author of Pedagogical Desire: Authority, Seduction, Transference, and the Question of Ethics and Postmodern Dilemmas: Outrageous Essays in Art & Art Education.

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