The Emotional Self: A Sociocultural ExplorationSAGE, 1998 M04 15 - 208 páginas `This addition to a growing number of texts which approach emotions and emotionality from a social constructionist perspective is well written, scholarly, accessible and interesting.... There is both breadth and depth to this work.′ - Feminism and Psychology This broad-ranging and accessible book brings together social and cultural theory with original empirical research into the nature of the emotional self in contemporary western societies. The emphasis of the analysis is on the emotional self as a dynamic project that is continually shaped and reshaped via discourse, embodied sensations, memory, personal biography and interactions with others and objects. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Deborah Lupton draws on a number of sociocultural approaches that adopt a post-structuralist perspective. She strongly emphasizes language and discourse as they construct and express concepts of the self and the emotions, whilst also acknowledging the sensual, embodied and unconscious dimensions of emotional experience. |
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... anxiety or anger , also serve to enhance survival . Fear and its associated ' flight ' behaviour , for exam- ple , are seen to act to separate the individual from the source of danger , while anger is viewed as destroying a barrier to ...
... anxiety . If one actor gains power and / or the other actor loses it , the emotional outcome is likely to be a sense of security ' ( Kemper , 1991 : 319 ) . As well as directing their attention at how emotions serve a function in the ...
... anxiety , boredom , alienation , love , sympathy , and so on , are manifestations of the personal and private apprehensions the individual has made of the world . As such , emotions are emblematic of the individual's under- standing of ...
... anxiety . Emotional feeling and expression is part of what Denzin refers to as the ' interpretive ' , everyday practices of the person . These practices , he argues , ' involve a constitutive core of recurring activities that must be ...
... anxiety , fear , envy , hate and emptiness . These mechanisms include splitting , introjection , projection and pro- jective identification . By these unconscious defence mechanisms , unac- ceptable or painful inner aspects of the self ...
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Everyday Discourses | 39 |
Chapter 3 Emotions Bodies Selves | 71 |
Chapter 4 The Emotional Woman and the Unemotional Man | 105 |
Chapter 5 Emotions Things and Places | 137 |
Conclusion | 167 |
Appendix Sociodemographic Details of the Interview Study Participants | 173 |
References | 174 |
Index | 185 |