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On Hanging Loose and Loving: The Dilemma of Present Youth 1
Author(s) -
Miller Henry
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1971.tb00667.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , anguish , dialectic , politics , human sexuality , ethnic group , sociology , gender studies , social psychology , aesthetics , psychology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , political science , philosophy , law , anthropology
A polemic in which it is argued that the use of drugs among contemporary American youth is but one of many different behaviors and mystiques pervading their life. Thus, a fascination with the encounter, with ethnicity, with expressive politics, with nomadism, with sexuality, as well as with drugs, suggests that youth are engaged in a frustrating dialectic between freedom and commitment. The search for freedom is not political but rather a groping for sensate and affectual liberation. The dilemma posed by the inevitable constraints of commitment generates an awesome paradox which accounts for the anguish of the generation.