Sie befinden Sich nicht im Netzwerk der Universität Paderborn. Der Zugriff auf elektronische Ressourcen ist gegebenenfalls nur via VPN oder Shibboleth (DFN-AAI) möglich. mehr Informationen...
Keeping Horror in Mind: Psychoanalysis and the “New Direction” of EC Comics
Ist Teil von
Journal of popular culture, 2021-08, Vol.54 (4), p.868-890
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In 1954, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, leading to the creation of the Comics Code Authority and redirecting the path of the comic book in the United States. Wertham and other practitioners utilized the discourse of psychoanalysis to decry comics at these hearings and in their writings.1 Yet at the same time, many of those concepts were gaining traction in popular culture and would become a source of inspiration for comics creation as the Silver Age of Comics ushered in the psychological hero, drawing upon the rise of popular psychology in the United States led by the fame of psychoanalysis.2 Before the Silver Age began, though, psychoanalysis itself—then the queen of psychiatric practice—found a compelling, dramatic voice in comics not through the powerful practitioners but rather the patients themselves. In particular, for a brief period in 1955, EC Comics published Psychoanalysis, which bore witness to the popularity and perhaps even the efficacy of the practice of this strange new method of psychoanalysis. The series provided a fascinating middle ground in the battle between comics as a medium and the guardians of mental health, offering insight into what would come next in comics.