Inventing the psychological : toward a cultural history of emotional life in America

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Inventing the psychological : toward a cultural history of emotional life in America

edited by Joel Pfister and Nancy Schnog

Yale University Press, c1997

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

収録内容

  • On inventing the psychological / Nancy Schnog
  • On conceptualizing the cultural history of emotional and psychological life in America / Joel Pfister
  • Oedipus and America : historical perspectives on the reception of psychoanalysis in the United States / John Demos
  • History and the psychosocial : reflections on "Oedipus and America" / John Demos
  • Changing emotions : moods and the nineteenth-century American woman writer / Nancy Schnog
  • Domestic interiors : boyhood nostalgia and affective labor in the gilded age / Richard S. Lowry
  • Modern psychological selfhood in the art of Thomas Eakins / David M. Lubin
  • Glamorizing the psychological : the politics of the performances of modern psychological identities / Joel Pfister
  • Educating the emotions : psychology, textbooks, and the psychology industry, 1890-1940 / Jill G. Morawski
  • Epistemology of the bunker : brainwashed and other new subjects of permanent war / Catherine Lutz
  • Deep jazz : notes on interiority, race, and criticism / Robert Walser
  • Beyond the talking cure : listening to female testimony on the Oprah Winfrey Show / Franny Nudelman

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ISBN 9780300068092

内容説明

Asking if the popular tendency to define the self in psychological language derived from (Freudian) "truths", or whether American culture invents and promotes psychological identities, this text shows the ways Americans imagine "innerness" and how emotions have been shaped by the mass-media.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780300070064

内容説明

When and why did it become chic for members of the white middle and upper classes to perceive and value themselves as neurotic, primitive, and emotionally fragile? Is the popular tendency to define the self in psychological language derived from revealed (Freudian) "truths," or does American culture for various purposes invent and promote "emotional" and "psychological" identities? In this fascinating book, distinguished interdisciplinary scholars show that the ways Americans imagine "innerness" and emotions have been shaped by mass media, economics, domesticity, and the arts. The authors investigate how changes in ideologies of the family, class, race, gender, and sexuality over the past two centuries relate to shifts in Americans' visions of self and psyche; they study "the psychological" as a changing cultural category and "emotions" as historically shifting self-definitions. Their compelling topics include how the Romantic idea of "moods" was appropriated by nineteenth-century female authors of sentimental fiction; how black jazz musicians have responded to white interpretations of African-American jazz as emotionally and aesthetically "deep"; and whether women's confessions of victimization on the Oprah Winfrey Show are akin to 1970s feminist consciousness-raising groups. Provocative and timely, the book challenges the premises of psychohistory and the dominant ways in which Americans have been taught to conceptualize the making of psychological and emotional life.

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