Circus and Street: Psychosocial Aspects of the Black Toast

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 1972Publisher:University of Illinois PressJournal:The Journal of American Folklore, volume 85, page 123 (issn: 0021-8715,

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Authors: Bruce Jackson;

doi: 10.2307/539244

Circus and Street: Psychosocial Aspects of the Black Toast

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The Circus reenacts many of the persistent problems of ambivalence: terror and sadism, horror and masochism are activated, then immediately and magically dissolved. No mature relationship is dramatized, and the circus audience leaves the tent arena as childlike as it entered. This is appropriate for children, whose aim is mastery of external reality, in contrast to the grown-up, whose aim is mastery of internal reality.'

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