Banned Emotions

How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

Who benefits and who loses when emotions are described in particular ways? How do metaphors such as "hold on" and "let go" affect people's emotional experiences? Banned Emotions, written by neuroscientist-turned-literary scholar Laura Otis, draws on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology to challenge popular attempts to suppress certain emotions. This interdisciplinary book breaks taboos by exploring emotions in which people are said to "indulge": self-pity, prolonged crying, chronic anger, grudge-bearing, bitterness, and spite. By focusing on metaphors for these emotions in classic novels, self-help books, and popular films, Banned Emotions exposes their cultural and religious roots.Examining works by Dante, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Forster, and Woolf in parallel with Bridesmaids, Fatal Attraction, and Who Moved My Cheese?, Banned Emotions traces pervasive patterns in the ways emotions are represented that can make people so ashamed of their feelings, they may stifle emotions they need to work through. The book argues that emotion regulation is a political as well as a biological issue, affecting not only which emotions can be expressed, but who can express them, when, and how.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-09
Mått:236 x 163 x 22 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190698904

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Laura Otis is a Professor of English at Emory University. With an MA in Neuroscience, a PhD in Comparative Literature, and an MFA in Fiction, she compares the creative thinking of scientists and literary writers. Otis, a MacArthur Fellow, is the author of Organic Memory, Membranes, Networking, Müller's Lab, and Rethinking Thought.

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"Otis brings her training as a neuroscientist and literary scholar to the study of the influence that metaphors have on the experience and understanding of what she calls "banned emotions," those emotions considered harmful to the person who possesses them, others nearby, and society at large. Beginning with an extraordinarily lucid examination of the metaphors employed by or hidden in the theories of classic and modern students of emotion, she shows how emotions are seen as "hijacking reason," "impeding our forward movement," and "spreading like diseases." She draws her analysis to a close with a wonderfully enlightening consideration of the metaphors of emotion regulation in which she reveals the gendered, political, economic, and religious roots of such metaphors, more than a few of which target various forms of inequality and the imperatives of social justice. Outstanding."