The lost child complex in Australian film : Jung, story and playing beneath the past - Waddell, Terrie (London: Routledge, 2019)
The lost child complex: a cultural and screen history. Beginnings: complex, settlement, cultural memory -- Literally lost: searchers, the searched for and grail metaphors -- Celebrating defeat: the blooded child of war and sport -- Double wounding. Double wounding: imposing lostness -- Inner and outer twinning: parent as lost child/lost child as parent -- Inner children and the victory complex. Stuck in the past: lost child as earworm -- The victory complex: nostalgia for the American dream and the art of the win -- Concluding remarks.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Missing children in motion pictures; Abandoned children in motion pictures; Archetype (Psychology) in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Australia