Gary Peterson wrote;
>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?
And all this time I thought it was due to a full moon and few stray wavelets !
;-)
George
George Goedel
Northern Kentucky University
