Rev. Falwell said that gay groups were themselves seeing tinky winkey as a
gay icon? Perhaps it is a Jungian archetypal image due to the color
psychology of purple and the balance of opposites represented by the
triangular antenna(if that's what that thing is?). Unconcsiously the
creators (not THE creator of course) of the tellatubbies, in their efforts
to appear sex-neutral, were drawn to this archetypal image which actually
reveals their unconscious ideological agenda of promoting Jungian ideas.
The unconscious unisex ideology of The Creators combine here with the overt
sexual focus of the polarized Gay and Christian fundamentalist communities
to reveal a societal complex and conditioned fear of sex. Due to these
overt and covert associations, we may find tinkey winkey becoming a feared
object to some fundamentalist children and a hallowed icon to the gay
community. The use of such techniques (hidden) in these programs, are
forced upon our children, and can be traced to the early amoral,
secular-humanistic views of behavioral psychologists. However, Rev. Falwell
and others are merely engaging in the symbolic analyses made popular by
Freud, Jung, and others--to gain insight into the inner sanctum of the
psyche. Such analyses often reveal frightening archetypal themes in what
appears to be innocent images. Who knows what dark evils lurk behind the
color purple? Of course, your shadow knows.....
Sorry, I couldn't resist. I am sure we will be inundated with various
psycho-social analyses of the telatubbies, so I thought I would brainstorm a
few. There probably are some interesting class discussion topics in all of
this, but I think I will just lie down a while ;-) What class is this? Is
the weekend here yet? Gary Peterson
Somewhere in Michigan
