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A tear is an intellectual thing : the meanings of emotion
- Title
- A tear is an intellectual thing : the meanings of emotion / Jerome Neu.
- Author
- Neu, Jerome.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | B105.E46 N48 2000 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 342 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Can happiness be a self-deception? What are the connections between the sin of pride and the pride of identity politics? Is jealousy inevitable? What is the difference between a "perverse" sexual desire and an unthinkable one? Using the resources of philosophy, psychoanalysis, and other disciplines, Jerome Neu addresses these and other questions about what sustains and threatens our identity in A Tear Is an Intellectual Thing." "Unlike other philosophical studies of emotion which look at emotions in general, Neu takes up specific emotions as the focus of his inquiry, seeing them as much more than illustrative examples within his theory. He examines the extent to which certain expressions of emotion are natural or inevitable, and articulates their political and moral implications."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-330) and index.
- Contents
- Mill's Pig: An Introduction -- "A Tear is an Intellectual Thing" -- Jealous Afterthoughts -- Odi et Amo: On Hating the Ones We Love -- Boring from Within: Endogenous versus Reactive Boredom -- Pride and Identity -- Plato's Homoerotic Symposium -- Freud and Perversion -- What is Wrong with Incest? -- Fantasy and Memory: The Etiological Role of Thoughts according to freud -- "Does the Professor Talk to God? Learning from Little Hans -- Levi-Strauss on Shamanism -- "Getting Behind the Demon's" -- Life-Lies and Pipe Dreams: Self-Deception in Ibsen's The Wild Duck and O'Neil's The Iceman Cometh.
- ISBN
- 0195123379
- 9780195123371
- 0195160290
- 9780195160291
- LCCN
- 99010364
- OCLC
- ocm40744294
- 40744294
- SCSB-9440572
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library