Saving the Modern Soul Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help

Name: Saving the Modern Soul Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help
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ISBN: 9780520253735

ISBN-10: 0520253736

ISBN-13: 9780520253735

Edition: 2008

Authors: Eva Illouz

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The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture-fromThe SopranostoOprah,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 Soulexamines 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. Situating her argument within broad political and…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/4/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 1.232



Acknowledgments



Introduction


Cultural Sociology and the Therapeutic


Therapy as a New Emotional Style


Texts and Contexts


Cultural Critique and Psychology



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



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



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 Pure Emotion


The Cooling of Passion


Conclusion



Triumphant Suffering


Why Therapy Triumphed


The Therapeutic Narrative of Selfhood


Performing the Self through Therapy


A Narrative in Action


Conclusion



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



Conclusion: Institutional Pragmatism in the Study of Culture


Notes


Index