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The Case of California
Focusing on the changing image of the West Coast through such varied social and cultural artifacts as bodybuilding, group therapy, suicide cults, milk-carton images of missing children, teenage slang, and surf music, Laurence Rickels offers a dizzying psychohistory of the twentieth century as crystallized in the symbolic configuration called California and considered in relation to German modernism, national socialism, and Freudian psychoanalysis.
384 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2001
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February 17, 2016
Rickels uses a lot of wordplay and his style and substance drew me in when I read 'The Vampire Lectures', but this one was a lot harder to follow, although I glimpsed enough to get that at least sense was being made that was worthwhile, even if I only perceived it partially. Let me reiterate that 'The Vampire Lectures' is one of the best books I've ever come across and absolutely rocked my world when I imbibed it, so I have faith in Rickels' reasoning, this book might be just a little too obscure for me in some places, though I sloughed through it and got out of it a good amount.
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