Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Banned Emotions How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel
Author(s): Otis Laura (Professor Of English Professor Of English Emory University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780190698904
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 4/23/2019
Category: Psychology: Emotions