Television and youth culture

televised paranoia

Jan Jagodzinski

Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation | 1

Palgrave Macmillan

2008

Abstract

This book explores youth in postmodern society through a Lacanian lens. Jagodzinski explores the generalized paranoia that pervades the landscape of television. Instead of dismissing paranoia as a negative development, he claims that youth today labour within the context of paranoia to find their identities.

Cited authors

Lacan Jacques