Description
Book SynopsisIn the last century food has become a multibillion-dollar industry, resulting in the world's population becoming fatter and fatter. This has resulted in rapidly growing cases of obesity, and its accompanying health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart problems. Food, Glorious Food will explore the origins of the importance of food in our society, and through a Jungian lens, what it is about food that drives us, as a society, beyond the point of satiety. The book also explores the culture symbols of the unconscious narrative around food, using Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland as a text to further illustrate this.
Table of ContentsFOREWORD
AN OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK
1. The big O-word: obesity
2. Psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
3. Concept one: symbols
4. Concept two: food
5. Concept three: obesity
6. Concept four: the collective unconscious (the Jungian perspective)
7. Concept five: the personal unconscious (the Freudian perspective)
8. Synthesis of the major recurring themes
9. A few last words on the recurring themes and concepts…
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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