Narcissistic Era: Popular Culture In The Disease Metaphor Research

It is a blank of study on illness as metaphor in mass culture of the day.There is much significance at crossroads of illness as metaphor that's a basal mode of thinking and mass culture that's a strong ideology.On the basis of filled blank,this paper analyzes illness as moral and aesthetic metaphors with symptomatic reading,how these metaphors came to ideology and aesthetics,and the mass' attitude to metaphors,the reciprocal relationship between the mass and metaphors.The purpose of this study is to find out exit in labyrinth of the era's personality through lightended the dark and confusing infinite loop.There are most common medicine and diseases in cultural products,what follow are amnesia,DID(dissociative identity disorder),psycho,psychiatrist,madhouse,cosmetic operation,psychogenic overeating,anorexia,anatomy,grafting,handicapped person, melancholia,autism,leukemia,impotence,degeneration,vaginal teeth,pedophilia,S & M, necrophilia.These metaphors of illness could be summarized on five dimensions:"I" is fanciful and divisive,obsession on mirror-image,deformity of love & sex,the aggressive essence,excessive demands for love,these are substaintial symptoms Lacan's narcissistic personality.Therefore,this paper setup corresponding five chapters,in addition one chapter introduce Lacan's philosophy.1,Narcissism is an identification in Lacan's philosophy.Subject take for mirror-image as I through narcissistic identification.The essence of narcissism is the desire seeking for nothing forever.Subject's born fragmentation decided his nature aggression.Aggression and narcissistic identification constructed tension that impulsed people's psychogenic development in lifetime.2,I constructed by narcissistic identification was mechanism.Amnesia as metaphor was suspicion and test to imaginary I,however,it was dependence on I more.DID as metaphor rewrote I,however,the rewriting was weak because of pretence of disease.3,Obsession and fear about image.Image was the mirror-image that subject take for I by narcissistic identification.Cosmetic operation,psychogenic overeating,anorexia were obsession about image.The masses' misreading was in charge of fanaticism of lost weight. The fear complex for splited and deformed human image,so,anatomy and grafting became measures to characterization of horror style.4,Deformity of love & Sex.Impotence and castration embodied the disappearance of traditional authority in super ego.Vaginal teeth were prefer deformity of female ego more than feminism.Pedophilia narration exposed narcissis's weak nature.S&M and necrophilia in cyber writings and cult movies weren't vulgar and erotic.Those text discussed probability of love & sex get free from the alienation hrough surrealism.5,It is an aggression of the mass and a hidden hegemony discourse that disabled people and unconditional love became one.There was a rebellion against hegemony discourse in pornographic movies straight narration about sex and love of disabled couple.6,Emotional consumerism brought satisfaction for narcissis's chase for redundant love and anxiety were defence on aggression.Melancholia,autism,leucemia girls were coded as the popular products by mass culture gradually,meet the narcissistic masses' wants successfully.