The sibling society
Material type: TextReading, MA Addison-Wesley c1996Description: xiii, 319p.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-201-40646-2
- Tales--Psychological Aspects
- Families--Psychological aspects
- Mythology--Psychological Aspects
- Youth
- Relationship (Psychological)
- Brothers and Sisters
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Ganesa (Hindu deity)
- Fathers and Sons
- Mothers and Daughters
- Children
- Oedipus Complex
- Feminism
- Men's Movement
- Psychology, Social
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Popular Culture : 'The talk show replaces the family. Instead of art we have the Internet. In place of community we have the mall.' ; Chapt. 1: The Woodstock Movement, p3-7; Chapt. 3: Swimming among the half-adults, p44-64.. Social Values : 'Without that 'vertical gaze'...we have no longing for the good, no deep understanding of evil. We shy away from great triumphs and deep sorrow...What we are left with is spiritual flatness'. Intergenerational Relations : 'Like sullen teenagers we live in our peer group, glancing from side to side, rather than upward, for direction. We have brought down all forms of hierarchy..we have destroyed any willingness to look up or down. Without that 'vertical gaze' we have no elders and no children, no past and no future'. Youthfulness : A culture where no one gets beyond adolescence.. Fairy Tale : Jack and The Beanstalk : Part 1: Jack, the beanstalk and the half-adult.. Ganesha (Hindu Deity) : Chapt. 4: The adventures of Ganesha: a Hindu story (Father- hunger), p67-88.. Culture : 'Through his use of poetry and myth, Bly takes us beyond the sociological statistics...in this sibling culture he describes, we tolerate no one above us and have no concern for anyone below us'. Fathers and Sons : Chapt. 7: What do sons stand to lose or gain in a sibling society?, p116-130.. Mothers and Daughters : Chapt. 6: What do daughters stand to lose or gain in a sibling society?, p102-115.. Children : Chapt. 8: Disdain and contempt for children in the sibling society; Chapt. 10: Teaching our children that nothing works, p131-144; p159-164.. Oedipus Complex : p49-52.. Fairy Tale : Wild Girl and Her Sister (Norwegian) : Tale of a girl in adolescence, p89-101.. Fairy Tale : Snake That Wants To Eat All Its Brides (Swedish) : What happens to people who get thrown out the window, p219-227.. Feminism : Chapt. 11: Looking at women's and men's movements from inside the sibling house, p165-181.. Men's Movement : Chapt. 11: Looking at women's and men's movements from inside the sibling house, p165-181.. Psychology, Social : Bly uses film, literature, religious and economic viewpoints, myths, poetry, as they reflect our culture, to illustrate the psychological dilemmas of our time.
Part One: Jack, the Beanstalk, and the Half-Adult. 1. The Woodstock moment. 2. Jack, the beanstalk, and the giant with a large appetite. 3. Swimming among the half-adults. Part Two: Inside families. 4. The adventures of Ganesha: a Hindu story. 5. The wild girl and her sister: a Norwegian story. 6. What do daughters stand to lose or gain in a sibling society?. 7. What do sons stand to lose or gain in a sibling society?. 8. Disdain and contempt for children in the sibling society. Part Three: Outside the family. 9. Benjamin Franklin's pig: Economics and our heaviness of heart. 10. Teaching our children that nothing works. 11. Looking at women's and men's movements from inside the sibling house. Part Four: Culture. 12. Exultation in the mist of flatness. 13. The difficulty of understanding mythology in the sibling culture. 14. What is vertical thought?. 15. The snake that wants to eat all its brides: a Swedish story
'In The Sibling Society, Bly turns to stories as unexpected as Jack and the Beanstalk and the Hindu tale of Ganesha to illustrate and illuminate the troubled soul of our nation itself. What he shows us is a culture where adults remain children, and where children have no desire to become adults--a nation of squabbling siblings.'
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