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A Cultural Approach To Emotional Disorders: Introduction, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.
A Cultural Approach To Emotional Disorders: Introduction, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D.
Faculty Works: COM (1993-2016)
In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes. The author ties this phenomenon to a tension between two fundamentally different approaches to emotion: an individualist approach, which regards emotions as the property of the individual, whether biologically or psychologically, and a culturalist approach, which regards emotions as collective, social processes with distinctive histories and meanings that work to produce particularized subjects. While she links a strong …
Losing Our Cool? Following Williams And Grossberg On Emotions, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D., Jennifer Harding
Losing Our Cool? Following Williams And Grossberg On Emotions, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D., Jennifer Harding
Faculty Works: COM (1993-2016)
Despite constituting a significant area of everyday experience, emotions have rarely been the focus of detailed investigation within cultural studies. This paper makes a case for viewing emotions as social/cultural/political, as well as individual, phenomena and reviews the contributions of cultural theorists to analyses of emotions. To this end, it critically examines Raymond Williams' concept ‘structure of feeling’, which reintroduces the subjective into the social, and Larry Grossberg's concept ‘economy of affect’, which seeks to explain how, through affective investments, ideologies are internalized and naturalized. Whilst both theorists provide important conceptual tools, each conceptualization has specific limitations and neither theorist …
The Power Of Feeling: Locating Emotions In Culture, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D., Jennifer Harding
The Power Of Feeling: Locating Emotions In Culture, E. Deidre Pribram Ph.D., Jennifer Harding
Faculty Works: COM (1993-2016)
Within cultural studies, there has been little detailed investigation of emotions as part of everyday personal, cultural and political life. In this article, we argue the need for a cultural studies approach to emotions that focuses in detail on: how emotions are constituted, experienced and managed; what is culturally permissible for specific categories of subjects to express as part of their constitution within contemporary power relations; and the techniques and contexts in and through which the emotional subject is produced. We develop an analytical framework based on a critical review of, first, Michel Foucault's analyses of modern power, discourse and …