The Happiness Myth_ An Expose - Jennifer Hecht [186]
costume (and masks):
modern actors
ancient festival
carnival topsy-turvy
charivari
clothes as
modern concerts
festival criteria
frat house party
Gay Pride
Halloween Parade
pleasures of
Purim
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Star Trek
transvestism (drag)
Cowherd, William (New Church)
Crane, Stephen
Crawford, Joan (The Women)
Crow, Sheryl (“If It Makes You Happy”)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (Flow)
Curtis, Tony (Some Like It Hot)
cynicism
dance:
Catholicism
in circles
and drugs
ecstatic
Euripides on
Matisse
as metaphor
in parades
raves
at rock shows
at weddings
Darrow, Clarence (Farmington)
Daudet, Alphonse
Davenport-Hines, Richard
Davis, Natalie Zemon
Day, Doris (The Thrill of It All)
De Quincey, Thomas (Confessions of an English Opium-Eater)
deathbed scenes
Demeter
celebrated in Thesmophoria
compared to Christian mythic story,
compared to modern news
Demeter myth
democracy
department stores
Diagoras of Melos
Diana, Princess
diet
Diocletian, Emp.
Diogenes
Dionysus
Dionysus myth
Eleusian Mysteries
medieval fertility rites
Rome and Ceres
“Does Living in California Make People Happy?” (article)
“dog with no legs” metaphor
Donne, John
Dore, Gustave
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (Crime and Punishment)
Dowler, Milly
drugs
acid (LSD)
Adderall
alcohol and pregnancy
amphetamines
benzoin
bhang
caffeine
cocaine
codeine
crack
Demerol
ecstasy (MDMA)
ephedra (Mormon Tea)
hashish
heroin
laudanum
Lexapro
marijuana
mescaline
methamphetamines
morphine
mushrooms
nicotine
nitrous oxide
opium
pantagruelion (cannabis)
Percocet
Prozac
Ritalin
soma
SSRIs
Valium
Vicodin
Wellbutrin
Xanax
Zoloft
drug use:
as entheogen
in medieval diet
too much
Dunn, Elizabeth “Location, Location, Location” (article)
Easter
Ecclesiastes
anger is foolish
“the house of mourning”
Economist, The
Edison, Margaret (Wit)
Edison, Thomas
Eleusinian mysteries
Eleusis
Ellis, Havelock
Erotic Rights of Women
Sexual Inversion
Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (“Self-Reliance”)
enjoy life
limitations of wisdom
Spinoza cites on limits of wisdom
wisdom better than foolishness
wealth useful but not worth fighting for
work hard
The Enlightenment
entheogens
Epictetus
Epicurus
Epicureanism
Garden
Erasmus (In Praise of Folly)
euphoria
bacchanalian
drug
sexual
spiritual
Euripdes (Bacchae)
evangelicalism
Evangelical Protestantism
exercise
Fabian Society
fairy tales
“Goldilocks and the Three Bears,”
“Little Red Riding Hood”
“The Three Little Pigs”
fake happiness
fantasies of food abundance:
Hieronymus Bosch
Eden
Israel
Land of Cockaigne
“land of milk and honey”
Muslim heaven
New World
Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory
fascists
fashion
fertility:
anti-alcohol ritual
carnival ritual and
golden egg
rituals
and Victorian “nerves”
festivals
Bacchanal
Brazilian carnival
Dionysus
festivals (Greek)
Frat-house parties
Thesmophoria
Wine Jugs Day of Anthesteria
Festivus
films
Being John Malkovitch
Catch-22
Donnie Darko
Hope and Glory
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moonstruck
Pink Flamingoes
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Thrill of It All
The Wedding Crashers,
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(1971)
fitness
Fixx, James
Complete Book of Running
Fletcher, Horace (and fletcherizing)
Fonda, Bridget
Fonda, Jane (My Life So Far)
Fonzarelli, Arthur
food (see also fantasies of food abundance):
abundance
advertising
eating fads
effects on the body
fantasies of abundance
and health dangers
and immigrants
moderation of
modern ideas on health and
Franklin, Benjamin
Frederick II, Emperor
free love
Freemasons
Freud, Sigmund
and cocaine
introduction
libido
“On Coca,”
tripartite inner self
friendship
Galen
Gibbon, Edward
girl in trouble
Gladstone, William
Goethe
Gorer, Geoffrey
Gorey, Edward
graceful-life philosophy
Graham, Sylvester
boarding houses
Journal of Health and Longevity
Grant, Ulysses
“Great Malnutrition Scare of