Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America

By Joel Pfister

Book Overview

Asking if the popular tendency to define the self in psychological language derived from (Freudian) truths, or whether American culture invents and promotes psychological identities, this text shows the ways Americans imagine innerness and how emotions have been shaped by the mass-media.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300068093
• ISBN13: 9780300068092
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"