{"id":1583,"date":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2004\/01\/12\/an-exploration-of-the-tendency-towards-manipulation-in-the-media-and-desire-for-magic-and-enchantment-in-the-human-psyche\/"},"modified":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"an-exploration-of-the-tendency-towards-manipulation-in-the-media-and-desire-for-magic-and-enchantment-in-the-human-psyche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2004\/01\/12\/an-exploration-of-the-tendency-towards-manipulation-in-the-media-and-desire-for-magic-and-enchantment-in-the-human-psyche\/","title":{"rendered":"An exploration of the tendency towards manipulation in the Media and desire for magic and enchantment in the human psyche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Objectives \u2013 To show how and why society still needs myths and magic in the ages of science and enlightenment. Method \u2013 Define the language of myth, and why we read significance into events and objects; Define the function of myths and magic in relation to the human psyche and psychoanalysis; Sources \u2013 Barthes\u2019 Mythologies, Rollo May\u2019s The Cry For Myth, Adorno and Horkheimer\u2019s Dialectic Of Enlightenment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jolene Laurie, 2004, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[413,22,128],"tags":[344,247,393],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-413","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-barthes","tag-journalism","tag-myth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}