On Anxiety av Renata Salecl

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We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from ''therapy culture'', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its <EM>Scream</EM> franchise, pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs such as Paxil to combat newly diagnosed anxieties.<BR><EM>On Anxiety</EM> takes a fascinating, psychological plunge behind the scenes of our panic stricken culture and into anxious minds, asking who and what is responsible. Putting anxiety on the couch, Renata Salecl asks some much-needed questions: Is anxiety about the absence of authority or too much of it? Do the media report anxiety or create it? Are drugs a cure for anxiety or its cause? Is anxiety about being yourself or someone else, and is anxiety really the ultimate obstacle to happiness? <BR>Drawing on vivid examples from films such as the <EM>X Files</EM> and <EM>Cyrano de Bergerac</EM>, drugs used on soldiers to combat