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Borrowed from the university library
Four points Shinichi makes on why Pokemon is appealing.
> Pokemon represents the "objet petit a" that want/desire you always have but can't seem to fulfill
> Pokemon is a symptom of fatherless children or a society that places less emphasis on authority (atheism)
> Pokemon mediates the 'will to science' (like how biologists categorize animals) with human elements.
> Pokemon serves as the perfect mental asylum for what Claude Lévi-Strauss calls 'the Savage Mind'
And to the question of shrinking, on page 58, Shinichi confirms the old lore of the Primeape shrinking into a glasses case. Additionally, as to the question of "shrinking or digitization" Shinichi says that Pokeballs reduce Pokemon into data. So we can speculate that old Pokeballs merely shrink Pokemon, whereas modern Pokeballs shrink Pokemon and transform them into data for the digital storage system.
Four points Shinichi makes on why Pokemon is appealing.
> Pokemon represents the "objet petit a" that want/desire you always have but can't seem to fulfill
> Pokemon is a symptom of fatherless children or a society that places less emphasis on authority (atheism)
> Pokemon mediates the 'will to science' (like how biologists categorize animals) with human elements.
> Pokemon serves as the perfect mental asylum for what Claude Lévi-Strauss calls 'the Savage Mind'
And to the question of shrinking, on page 58, Shinichi confirms the old lore of the Primeape shrinking into a glasses case. Additionally, as to the question of "shrinking or digitization" Shinichi says that Pokeballs reduce Pokemon into data. So we can speculate that old Pokeballs merely shrink Pokemon, whereas modern Pokeballs shrink Pokemon and transform them into data for the digital storage system.
