Book ID: CBB000072439

Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America (1997)

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Pfister, Joel (Editor)
Schnog, Nancy (Editor)


Yale University Press
Publication date: 1997
Language: English


Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xiv + 329 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Schnog, Nancy: On inventing the psychological. Pfister, Joel: On conceptualizing the cultural history of emotional and psychological life in America. Demos, John: Oedipus and America: Historical perspectives on the reception of psychoanalysis in the United States (1978). History and the psychosocial: Reflections on “Oedipus and America”. Schnog, Nancy: Changing emotions: Moods and the 19th-century American woman writer. Lowry, Richard S.: Domestic interiors: Boyhood nostalgia and affective labor in the Gilded Age. Lubin, David M.: Modern psychological selfhood in the art of Thomas Eakins. Pfister, Joel: Glamorizing the psychological: The politics of the performances of modern psychological identities. Morawski, Jill G.: Educating the emotions: Academic psychology, textbooks, and the psychology industry, 1890-1940. Lutz, Catherine: Epistemology of the bunker: The brainwashed and other new subjects of permanent war. Walser, Robert: Deep jazz: Notes on interiority, race, and criticism. Nudelman, Franny: Beyond the talking cure: Listening to female testimony on The Oprah Winfrey show.


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Review Showalter, E. (1997 (Nov. 28)) Review of "Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (p. 28). unapi

Review Pfeil, F. (1998) Review of "Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America". American Quarterly (pp. 652-61). unapi

Review Farland, M.M. (1998) Review of "Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America". Modern Language Notes (pp. 1187-90). unapi

Review Moraitis, G. (1998) Review of "Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America". Modernism/Modernity (pp. 198-200). unapi

Review Stearns, P.N. (1998) Review of "Inventing the psychological: Toward a cultural history of emotional life in America". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 334-36). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dixon, Thomas
Doroshow, Deborah Blythe
Frank, Adam
Johnston, Elizabeth B.
Kuokkanen, Anna
Laukötter, Anja
Journals
Cold War History
History of the Human Sciences
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Contemporary European History
History of Psychology
Publishers
Yale University
Harvard University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of California Press
University of Chicago Press
University of Illinois Press
Concepts
Psychology
Emotions; passions
Cultural history
Cold War
Social sciences
Neurosciences
People
James, William
Bain, Alexander
Bion, Wilfred Ruprecht
Brown, Thomas
Harlow, Harry Frederick
Khruschchev, Nikita Sergeyevich
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Austria
Germany
Ethiopia
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