The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film: Jung, Story and Playing Beneath the Past

by Terrie Waddell

Book Overview

The mythologising of lost and abandoned children significantly influences Australian storytelling. In The Lost Child Complex in Australian Film, Terrie Waddell looks at the concept of the 'lost child' from a psychological and cultural perspective. Taking an interdisciplinary Jungian approach, she re-evaluates this cyclic storytelling motif in history, literature, and the creative arts, as the nucleus of a cultural complex...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138939692
• ISBN13: 9781138939691
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"