Identity and the Real Self in Postwar American Psychiatry

Lunbeck, Elizabeth

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“…Scholars have traced the historical development (Taylor ; Trilling ) and global spread (Keane ) of the concept of a sincere, authentic, and interiorized self. In the twentieth century United States, this developed into a therapeutic ethos in which a person's “real self” is grounded in personal inner experience, and social norms and institutions are seen as unwarranted constraints on the development and expression of this real self (Illouz ; Lunbeck ; Smith ). The ability to discursively identify and express one's inner feelings is increasingly held up as the definitive characteristic of a healthy psychology in both the United States and England (Illouz ; Scheer ; Swan ).…”

Section: Concepts Of the Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating “Bright, Positive” Selves: Discourses of Self and Emotion in a Japanese Public‐Speaking Course

Dunn

2016

Ethos

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This article examines emotion pedagogy and technologies of the self in two Japanese settings: public-speaking classes and business-etiquette training for new employees. Data were gathered through participant-observation and selective audio recording in both settings. The emotion pedagogy found in these classes aims at polishing the public presentation of self as akarui "bright" and sekkyokuteki "active." The training focuses less on the interpretation of inner feelings or competence in a psychologized emotion register than on inculcating habits of thought and behavior which allow clients to function affectively and effectively within their social contexts. The study demonstrates how the late-modern reflexive project of self-fashioning can be embedded in institutional contexts and carried out through metapragmatically explicit emotion pedagogy focusing on the public presentation of self. [Emotion, Japanese self, technology of the self, emotion pedagogy]

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Section: Concepts Of the Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating “Bright, Positive” Selves: Discourses of Self and Emotion in a Japanese Public‐Speaking Course

Dunn

2016

Ethos

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“…Recent studies document postwar efforts to remake the self (Engerman, 2010; Heyck & Kaiser, 2010; Isaac, 2007, 2009; Lunbeck, 2000) and trace the ways that social scientific practices, technical tools, and often elite self-conceptions were integrated into and shaped models of human nature (Cohen-Cole, 2005; Gigerenzer, 1996; Lubek & Stam, 1995; Stam, Lubek, & Radtke, 1998; Stam, Radtke, & Lubek, 1995; Stark, 2010). They detail as well how social scientists traded concepts and fact claims across related disciplines (Erickson, 2010; Fontaine, 2010; Vicedo, 2010) and incorporated cultural imaginaries into their models (Bayer, 2008; Lutz, 1997; Martin, 1994; McCarthy, 2005; Nicholson, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…When portrayed as such, Goffman’s theoretical endeavors are considered to have importantly advanced role theory that emerged in the 1940s and was refined after the war. Interpretations of Goffman’s theory of self that emphasized the inner, real self, protected or hidden by role enactments, also gained support by a “new sociologically and psychologically inflected discourse of the self” that materialized in postwar America (Lunbeck, 2000, p. 321).…”

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Livelihoods of theory: The case of Goffman’s early theory of the self

Morawski

2014

Theory & Psychology

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Although theory rich, contemporary psychologists have no consensual understanding of what constitutes a theory or how theory should be used, revised, and appraised. Likewise neglected are ways that a theory is taken up in specific research domains and how a theory can change over time. In response to calls for renewing psychology’s appreciation of theory, this article introduces an understanding of theory as vivacious and biographically complex. A dynamic perspective affords means to explore how a theory travels, is taken up in different times and places, and changes. So appreciating theory’s liveliness reveals not only what premises of humans are valued at a given time or within a given research domain, but uncovers vestigial features that were abandoned but might be valuable to contemporary theory work. Theory’s livelihood and travel is illustrated here by Erving Goffman’s early work on the self and its uses by Henry Riecken, Robert Rosenthal, and E. E. Jones.

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“…With this perspective, researchers such as Eugene Weinstein distinguished between "rigidity" resulting from passive socialization and "freedom to be interpersonally competent" (1969, p. 769). This "Americanization of psychoanalysis" and growing emphasis on autonomous individuals was part and parcel of midcentury ideas of protean beings in search of what Elizabeth Lunbeck (2000) has called the "real self. "…”

Section: Humans Without Neurosismentioning

confidence: 99%

The evolving vocabulary of the social sciences: The case of “socialization”.

Morawski¹,

Martin²

2011

History of Psychology

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While the term "socialization" stands as a common and clearly understood term regularly used in social science and lay conversations alike, its history is complex. In the 19th century, socialization was introduced to refer to societal activities or projects, and only in the early 20th century did it gain usage as a term describing psychological processes transpiring within the individual. The architecture of the newer meaning harbored ambitions and problems of modern social science, including ideals of interdisciplinary theory and theoretic resolution of the individual/society dualism. Nevertheless, socialization became a central object of social scientific inquiry after World War II. This significant social scientific object was repeatedly altered: initially representing a vision of conforming citizens who were free from certain troubling characteristics depicted in psychoanalysis and well-suited to democracy, it later was engaged to create a vision of autonomous, resilient, and cognitively active actors able to negotiate a complex social world.

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Identity and the Real Self in Postwar American Psychiatry

Cited by 8 publications

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Creating “Bright, Positive” Selves: Discourses of Self and Emotion in a Japanese Public‐Speaking Course

Creating “Bright, Positive” Selves: Discourses of Self and Emotion in a Japanese Public‐Speaking Course

Livelihoods of theory: The case of Goffman’s early theory of the self

The evolving vocabulary of the social sciences: The case of “socialization”.

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