This comprehensive collection of essays written by a practicing
psychiatrist shows that superheroes are more about superegos than
about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual
subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late
20th century. Superheroes have provided entertainment for
generations, but there is much more to these fictional characters
than what first meets the eye. Superheros and Superegos: Analyzing
the Minds Behind the Masks begins its exploration in 1938 with the
creation of Superman and continues to the present, with a nod to
the forerunners of superhero stories in the Bible and Greek, Roman,
Norse, and Hindu myth. The first book about superheroes written by
a psychiatrist in over 50 years, it invokes biological psychiatry
to discuss such concepts as "body dysmorphic disorder," as well as
Jungian concepts of the shadow self that explain the appeal of the
masked hero and the secret identity. Readers will discover that the
earliest superheroes represent fantasies about stopping Hitler,
while more sophisticated and socially-oriented publishers used
superheroes to encourage American participation in World War II.
The book also explores themes such as how the feminist movement and
the dramatic shift in women's roles and rights were predicted by
Wonder Woman and Sheena nearly 30 years before the dawn of the
feminist era.
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