Thatcherism offered a promise of future prosperity based on unleashing the young male's ambition; simultaneously, its ‘Victorian values’ sought to retrieve a moral past. Literary depictions of Thatcherism make the child central to a resulting contradiction between imagined moral past and materialistic future. The disappearance of the child recurs in Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor (1985), Ian McEwan's The Child in Time (1987), and Alan Hollinghurst's The Line of Beauty (2004). These novels satirise how Thatcherism managed the contradictions in its vision of the future by attempting to regulate the child's ambitions. They even use the abducted, killed, or simply disappeared child to audaciously parody both the results of Thatcherite policy and contemporaneous practices of literary and psychoanalytic Theory, as each struggles to represent the child's interests in the future. Here Thatcherite materialism leads, unintentionally and ironically, to unacceptable material ambitions in the child.

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企业精神：撒切尔主义和理论中消失的孩子

撒切尔主义提供了基于释放年轻男性雄心壮志的未来繁荣的承诺；同时，它的“维多利亚时代价值观”试图找回道德过去。对撒切尔主义的文学描绘使儿童成为想象的道德过去与物质主义未来之间由此产生的矛盾的核心。孩子的失踪在彼得·艾克罗伊德的《霍克斯莫尔》（1985 年）、伊恩·麦克尤恩的《时光之子》（1987 年）和艾伦·霍林赫斯特的《美丽的线条》（2004 年）中反复出现。这些小说讽刺了撒切尔主义如何通过试图调节孩子的野心来管理其未来愿景中的矛盾。他们甚至利用被绑架、杀害或干脆失踪的孩子来大胆地模仿撒切尔主义政策的结果以及同时代的文学和精神分析理论实践，因为每个人都努力在未来代表孩子的利益。在这里，撒切尔式的唯物主义无意和讽刺地导致了孩子无法接受的物质野心。