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Author Neu, Jerome

Title A tear is an intellectual thing : the meanings of emotion / Jerome Neu
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (342 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-330) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Emotions (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Emotions (Philosophy)
Gefühl
Emoties.
Filosofische aspecten.
Jaloezie.
Verveling.
Trots.
Seksuele afwijkingen.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585380767
9780585380766
0195352580
9780195352580
9780195123371
0195123379
128047145X
9781280471452