Rethinking Emotion: Moving beyond Interiority

Campe, Rüdiger; Wéber, Júlia

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“…Cultural models of emotion influence people's perceptions of their feelings; in this case, the notion of interiority draws attention toward internal physiological cues, which in turn reinforce the experience of emotions as stemming from inside the individual. However, anthropologists and philosophers have demonstrated the cultural and historical specificity of this experience of interiority, which is neither shared across all cultural and social groups, nor consistent across time even in “western” contexts (Campe & Weber, 2014; Rosaldo, 1984). Instead, emotions are often understood and experienced to come from outside of individuals or exist in the space between them (Lutz & White, 1986).…”

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Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

Seligman¹

2022

Transcult Psychiatry

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This article explores the relationship between metaphors and emotion in the context of adolescent distress and psychotherapeutic treatment. Drawing on data from an ethnographic study of Mexican American adolescents receiving outpatient treatment for a variety of emotional and behavioral problems, the article examines what I call “prescribed” metaphors deployed in mainstream, manualized child and adolescent Cognitive Behavioral Therapies commonly used in mainstream clinical contexts. I explore the models of emotion communicated to youth by one such metaphor, youth responses to this metaphor, and the potential implications for young people as they take up the underlying models and affective practices embedded in the metaphor. Specifically, I examine how youth respond to messages about emotion metacognition and emotion regulation embedded in a metaphor that equates feelings with temperatures that can be monitored and objectively measured. I find that youth are at once convinced that abstract knowledge about internal states is inherently valuable because it is linked to desired forms of personhood, but also concerned about the limits of technical metaphors to capture aspects of lived experience and the flattening and homogenization of affect that might accompany the practices such metaphors help to enact. I analyze alternative interpretations of prescribed metaphors as well as the spontaneous metaphors used by youth to talk about their emotions and experiences of distress, in an effort to think through the politics and poetics of emotion metaphors in the context of an evidence-based psychotherapy for young people.

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Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

Seligman¹

2022

Transcult Psychiatry

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“…Within sociology, emotion is trapped between opposing ends of numerous culturally rendered dichotomies: natural or cultural (Erickson & Cottingham, ; Harkness & Hitlin, ; Leavitt, ; Scheff, ; B. Turner, ; J. H. Turner, ), subjective or objective (Arweck, ; Campe & Weber, ; Furedi, ; Pilkington, ), rational/logical/reasonable or irrational/illogical/unreasonable , also known as emotion vs . cognition (Ariffin, Coicaud, & Popovski, ; Barbalet, ; Berezin, ; Burkart & Weggen, ; Davis, ; Iagulli, ; Jasper, ; Kunkel, ; Loseke & Kusenbach, ; Lutz, ), private/individual/internal/inner or public/collective/external/outer (Ariffin et al, ; Berezin, ; Harkin, ; Lively, ; Pilkington, ; Stets, ), mind or body (Chandler, ; Ross, ; Shilling, ; Smith‐Lovin & Thoits, ; Wettergren, ), ideational/discursive or materialist (Knopp, ; Lyon, ; Ross, ), micro or macro (Bericat, ; Berezin, ; Jasper, ; Stets, ), structure or culture/agency (Bericat, ; Fox, ; Jasper, ; Lively & Weed, ), and expressive or experiential (Ariffin et al, ; Illouz, Gilon, & Shachak, ; Lively, ; Rogers & Robinson, ). And the list goes on.…”

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Casualties of debate: A critique of the sociology of emotion

Cobb

2018

Sociology Compass

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I argue that the adherence to and reproduction of Western dualisms has rendered the sociology of emotion a hollow, stagnant, and incestuous subfield that privileges dichotomy over complexity, natural science over social science, discourse and display over experience and embodiment, and a single body of recycled, unidimensional mandates over “other” voices that we most desperately need to hear. In conclusion, I reiterate the material consequences brought about by an unyielding and unreflexive devotion to artificial dichotomies for “real” people in the “real” world (including sociologists of emotion.)

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Lesbian longings and the question of a queer repertoire in The “Other” Love Story

Singh

2022

Journal of Lesbian Studies

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Rethinking Emotion: Moving beyond Interiority

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Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

Metaphor and the politics and poetics of youth distress in an evidence-based psychotherapy

Casualties of debate: A critique of the sociology of emotion

Lesbian longings and the question of a queer repertoire in The “Other” Love Story

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