... is anxious and nostalgic, the desire to return to an imagined past of stability that, if it ever existed, is impossible to recuperate, a point marked by the setting of the play in "Never Land."" The "modern,"" as the experience of recent times, involves the memory of the past and anticipates a future. Thus, the experience of the "modern- is change. In the flux, the familiar may be ... that he has to negotiate. The anger and the feeling of impotence, which lead to childish outbursts, become modes of social regulation that ensure that middle-class men will not enjoy consistent identities ...

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