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A tear is an intellectual thing : the meanings of emotion

Author: Jerome Neu
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Neu, Jerome.
Tear is an intellectual thing.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000
(OCoLC)652294881
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Jerome Neu
ISBN: 0195123379 9780195123371
OCLC Number: 40744294
Description: 342 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Jerome Neu.
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"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.

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