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Saving the modern soul : therapy, emotions, and the culture of self-help / Eva Illouz.
LIBRA HN90.M6 I35 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Illouz, Eva, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social values--United States.
- Social values.
- Social norms.
- Emotions--Social aspects.
- Psychotherapy--Social aspects.
- Psychoanalysis and culture.
- United States.
- Psychoanalysis and culture--United States.
- Psychotherapy--Social aspects--United States.
- Psychotherapy.
- Emotions--Social aspects--United States.
- Emotions.
- Social norms--United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Culture of self-help
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture-from The Sopranos to Oprah, from the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. Saving the Modern Soul examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. Drawing on theoretical discussions in sociology, psychology, anthropology, and economics as well as popular materials like advice books and interviews, Eva Illouz plumbs today's particular cultural moment to understand how and why psychology has secured its place at the core of modern identity.
- Contents:
- Cultural Sociology and the Therapeutic 8
- Therapy as a New Emotional Style 12
- Texts and Contexts 16
- Cultural Critique and Psychology 19
- 2 Freud: A Cultural Innovator 22
- Psychoanalysis as a Charismatic Enterprise 24
- The Social Organization of Freudian Charisma 26
- Freud in America 29
- The Freudian Cultural Matrix 35
- The Romance of Psychology and Popular Culture 51
- 3 From Homo economicus to Homo communicans 58
- Emotional Control in the Sociology of Organizations 61
- The Power of Control and the Control of Power 64
- Psychologists Enter the Market 66
- A New Emotional Style 72
- Emotional Control 75
- The Communicative Ethic as the Spirit of the Corporation 88
- Emotional, Moral, and Professional Competence 95
- 4 The Tyranny of Intimacy 105
- Intimacy: An Increasingly Cold Haven 107
- Beyond Their Will? Psychologists and Marriage 115
- What Feminism and Psychology Have in Common 120
- Intimacy: A New Emotional Imagination 125
- Communicative Rationality in the Bedroom 131
- Toward the Ideology of Pure Emotion 135
- The Cooling of Passion 142
- 5 Triumphant Suffering 152
- Why Therapy Triumphed 156
- The Therapeutic Narrative of Selfhood 171
- Performing the Self through Therapy 178
- A Narrative in Action 186
- 6 A New Emotional Stratification? 197
- The Rise of Emotional Competence 200
- Emotional Intelligence and Its Antecedents 202
- The Global Therapeutic Habitus and the New Man 217
- Intimacy as a Social Good 222
- 7 Conclusion: Institutional Pragmatism in the Study of Culture 238.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520224469
- 0520224469
- 9780520253735
- 0520253736
- OCLC:
- 85485029
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