Saving the modern soul : therapy, emotions, and the culture of self-help /
Illouz, Eva, 1961-
Saving the modern soul : therapy, emotions, and the culture of self-help / Culture of self-help Eva Illouz. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-286) and index.
1. Introduction : A cultural sociology of the therapeutic -- The therapy as an new emotional style -- Texts and contexts -- Cultural critique and the psychology -- 2. Freud: a cultural innovator : Psychoanalysis as a charismatic enterprise -- The social organization of Freudian charisma -- Freud in America -- The Freudian cultural matrix -- The romance of psychology and popular culture -- Conclusion -- 3. From Homo economicus to Homo communicans -- Emotional control in the sociology of organizations -- The power of control and the control of power -- Psychologists enter the market -- A new emotional style -- Emotional control -- The communicative ethic as the spirit of the corporation -- Emotional, moral, and professional competence -- Conclusion -- 4. The tyranny of intimacy -- Intimacy: an increasingly cold haven -- Beyond their will? Psychologists and marriage -- What feminism and psychology have in common -- Intimacy: a new emotional imagination -- Communicative rationality in the bedroom -- Toward the ideology of the pure emotion -- The cooling of passion -- Conclusions -- 5. Triumphant suffering -- Why therapy triumphed -- The therapeutic narrative of selfhood -- Performing the self through therapy -- a narrative in action -- Conclusion -- 6. A new emotional stratification? -- The rise of emotional competence -- Emotional intelligence and its antecedents -- The global therapeutic habitus and the new man -- Intimacy as a social good -- Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion : Institutional pragmatism in the study of culture.
"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. Eva Illouz plumbs today's particular cultural moment to understand how and why psychology has secured its place at the core of modern identity. She examines a wide range of sources to show how self-help culture has transformed contemporary emotional life and how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences and heal trauma"--Provided by publisher
English.
9780520941311 0520941314 9786611385705 6611385703 1281385700 9781281385703 1435653602 9781435653603
10.1525/9780520941311 doi
22573/cttt414x JSTOR
2021696988
GBA821088 bnb
Uk
Social values--United States.
Psychoanalysis and culture--United States.
Psychotherapy--Social aspects--United States.
Emotions--Social aspects--United States.
Social norms--United States.
Valeurs sociales--États-Unis.
Psychothérapie--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Normes sociales--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
PSYCHOLOGY--General.
Emotions--Social aspects
Psychoanalysis and culture
Psychotherapy--Social aspects
Social norms
Social values
Psykoterapi--sociala aspekter--Förenta staterna.
Psykoanalys och kultur.
United States
HN90.M6
306.4/613
Saving the modern soul : therapy, emotions, and the culture of self-help / Culture of self-help Eva Illouz. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (x, 294 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-286) and index.
1. Introduction : A cultural sociology of the therapeutic -- The therapy as an new emotional style -- Texts and contexts -- Cultural critique and the psychology -- 2. Freud: a cultural innovator : Psychoanalysis as a charismatic enterprise -- The social organization of Freudian charisma -- Freud in America -- The Freudian cultural matrix -- The romance of psychology and popular culture -- Conclusion -- 3. From Homo economicus to Homo communicans -- Emotional control in the sociology of organizations -- The power of control and the control of power -- Psychologists enter the market -- A new emotional style -- Emotional control -- The communicative ethic as the spirit of the corporation -- Emotional, moral, and professional competence -- Conclusion -- 4. The tyranny of intimacy -- Intimacy: an increasingly cold haven -- Beyond their will? Psychologists and marriage -- What feminism and psychology have in common -- Intimacy: a new emotional imagination -- Communicative rationality in the bedroom -- Toward the ideology of the pure emotion -- The cooling of passion -- Conclusions -- 5. Triumphant suffering -- Why therapy triumphed -- The therapeutic narrative of selfhood -- Performing the self through therapy -- a narrative in action -- Conclusion -- 6. A new emotional stratification? -- The rise of emotional competence -- Emotional intelligence and its antecedents -- The global therapeutic habitus and the new man -- Intimacy as a social good -- Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion : Institutional pragmatism in the study of culture.
"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. Eva Illouz plumbs today's particular cultural moment to understand how and why psychology has secured its place at the core of modern identity. She examines a wide range of sources to show how self-help culture has transformed contemporary emotional life and how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences and heal trauma"--Provided by publisher
English.
9780520941311 0520941314 9786611385705 6611385703 1281385700 9781281385703 1435653602 9781435653603
10.1525/9780520941311 doi
22573/cttt414x JSTOR
2021696988
GBA821088 bnb
Uk
Social values--United States.
Psychoanalysis and culture--United States.
Psychotherapy--Social aspects--United States.
Emotions--Social aspects--United States.
Social norms--United States.
Valeurs sociales--États-Unis.
Psychothérapie--Aspect social--États-Unis.
Normes sociales--États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
PSYCHOLOGY--General.
Emotions--Social aspects
Psychoanalysis and culture
Psychotherapy--Social aspects
Social norms
Social values
Psykoterapi--sociala aspekter--Förenta staterna.
Psykoanalys och kultur.
United States
HN90.M6
306.4/613