Arguing with the Raving Phallus

Download or read book Arguing with the Raving Phallus written by Zuzana Kepplova and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of all-night-long parties with electronic dance music played by a DJ was a remarkable landmark of the '90s youthscape. For many scholars and commentators, the emergence of rave and club cultures signified a fascinating possibility to test out concepts for analyzing altered states of consciousness which became a trademark of raves and clubbing. Some of the concepts of psychoanalysis (and its polemical versions) happened to be very handy. But how are these concepts used and with what implications?