CHAPTER 4: INTRODUCTION TO KALEIDOSCOPE OF CULTURE

Overall Gameplan

** Situating Ourselves
** Roadmap for Our Kaleidoscopic Journey

Astrological Aspects at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

** Seeing the World Through Archetypal Eyes
** Astrological Excursion
*** The Circle Game
*** Planetary Positions
*** Planetary Relationships—Aspects and Transits
*** Outer Planetary Playbill
**** Structured Senex Saturn
**** Uniquely Innovative Uranus
**** Nebulous Nonordinary Neptune
**** Potently Primal Pluto

** As the Twentieth Century Turns Astrologically

*** Uranus-Pluto—Revolutionary Transformation
*** Uranus-Neptune—Illuminating Imagination
*** Saturn-Pluto—Traumatically Transformative

Setting the Stage—As the Twentieth Century Turns

** A Celebration of Certainty?
** Science and Technology Take Center Stage
** Social Sciences Shine
** The Quantum Comes to Light as Chaos Creeps In
** The Dawn of Depth Psychology
*** Freud’s Foundations or Firsts
*** Jung and Flournoy and The Importance of Psyche’s Myth and Play
** Childhood Comes of Age
** Ain’t We Got Fun?
** Lights Camera Action The Film Industry Begins
*** The First Films—Magic of Méliès
*** The Dream Factory Starts Production and a Star Is Born
** Famous Comings and Goings--Fads, Fancies, Art, and the Sports Scene
** Some Sad Shadows

Modern Popular CultureA Consuming Passion

CHAPTER 5: THE PERILS AND PITFALLS OF PLAY:
PLAY’S SHADOW PLAYS OUT IN CHICAGO

Introducing Chicago

Astrological Aspects for Chicago

**Archetypal Actors Again
**Two Similarly Shadowy Saturn-Pluto Periods
**Depth Psychological Considerations

A Tale of two Times 2000s and 1920s

**As the Century Turns Again to 2000
***Terror, War, Violence and Destruction
***The Dark Side of Computers
***Political Scenes
***The Always Entertaining Entertainment Industry
***Corporate Corruption Runs Rampant
***Here Today Gone Tomorrow
***Science—From Chromosomes and Cloning to the Cosmos
**The Twenties-- A Paradoxical Period
***Conservative Constrictions and Underworld Activities
***Women and Youth—Return of the Repressed
***Trash Tabloids to Literary Heights—Arts and Entertainment Abound
***The Art World— From Gay Paris to Broadway and the Blues
***Capital Ideas, Inventions and Innovations
***What Will They Think of Next?  Our Favorite Foods
***Radio and Television Rule the Airwaves While Movies Modernize
***Psychology Becomes Popular
**Putting Things in Perspective

Playbook for Chicago 

**Chicago Gameplan
**A Short Summary

From Shootings to the Silver Screen—The History of Chicago

**The Truth—Stranger Than Fiction
**Art Imitates Life
**Life Imitates Art
**You Oughta Be in Pictures Again—But How?
**Imagination to the Rescue.
**Roxie’s Reveries

Ongoing Themes That Play Throughout Chicago

**Transitions Back and Forth Play a Major Role
**The Depth of Roxie’s Reveries
***Freud’s Formulations
***Jung’s Take
***Archetypal Excursion
***Hiatus in Hades With Hillman
***Romanyshyn’s Response Regarding Reverie
**Onyx Theater Excursion
***A Colorful Perspective
***Mineralogical and Esoteric Qualities
***Mythical Look
**It's All Show Business
**Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Who’s the Most Narcissistic One of All?

Chicago—Chapter and Verse

**And All That Jazz
**Killing Fred Casely
**Funny Honey
**When You’re Good to Mama
**Cell Block Tango
***The Dance of Nemesis and Narcissus
***Let the Rivalry Begin
**All I Care About
**Sweetest Little Jazz Killer
**We Both Reached for the Gun
**Roxie
**I Can’t Do It Alone
**Go to Hell Kitty
**Mister Cellophane
**Flash in the Pan
**Razzle Dazzle
**Velma Takes the Stand
**A Tapdance
**The Verdict
**Nowadays—Nothing Stays—Back and Forth Dynamics Of the Psyche
**Hot Honey Rag

Reflections on Chicago

CHAPTER 6:DISNEYLAND HIGHLIGHTS THE PROMISE OF PLAY

Guide to Disneyland

Disneyland Beneath the Stars—Astrological Aspects

** Correlations in Culture at the Time and in the Cultural Piece
** Depth Psychological Associations

Flashback to Fabulous Fifties

** Is it Cold in Here or is it Just Me—The Chilly Climate of the Cold War.
** Civil Rights—Right Here at Home
** Portrait of the Decade in a Compensatory Light
** Focus on the Family
** Fifties Foods—Frosty Frozen and Fast
** From Science Firsts to Science Fiction
** Different Fifties Fashions
** Religion—Experiences a Revival
** Depth Psychology—In Many Gods We Trust!
** Drugs and Alcohol Abound
** Rock and Roll is Here to Stay
** Let's Go to the Movies
** Television Triumphs

Overview and Orientation of Disneyland

**Disneyland’s Structure
*** Going for Baroque?
*** Overviews of the Overall Structure
*** Many Maps, Many Meanings or Many Meanings of the Map
*** More Playful Versions—Nye and I
*** Archetypal Nature and Cartographic Correspondences
*** Neptunian Playground

** The Grand Tour of Disneyland’s Lands
*** Main Street USA
**** Main Street as Strategic Opening Shot
**** Main Street USA as Mediator
*** The Central Importance of the Center—The Hub and Sleeping Beauty Castle
**** The Hub
**** Sleeping Beauty Castle
*** Fantasyland
*** New Orleans Square
*** Frontierland and Adventureland
*** Tomorrowland
**** Tomorrowland’s Troubles
**** Tomorrowland, Terminal Space, and the Transcendent

** Explanations of Different Excursions and Links to Them
*** The Antistructure Excursion
*** The Art of the Show Excursion 
*** The Cherishing of Childhood Excursion 
*** The Looking-Back and Looking-Forward Excursion
*** The Child of the Times Excursion
*** The Amusing Ancestry Excursion

Impact of Disneyland—Lessons Learned
From The House of Mouse.

** Main Street USA
** The Hub
** Adventureland and New Orleans Square
** Frontierland
** Sleeping Beauty Castle
** Fantasyland
** Tomorrowland

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