Embodied Selves

An Anthology of Psychological Texts 1830-1890
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-871042-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 704 g

This anthology of primary materials will help redraw our understanding of the complexity and range of Victorian psychological thought and its relations to the wider cultural framework of the era. Drawing together an unprecedented range of materials from scientific, medical, and cultural sources, it charts changing notions of selfhood and bodily identity in the emerging sciences (and pseudo-sciences) of psychology and psychiatry. Areas covered include: physiognomy, phrenology, and mesmerism; theories of dreams, memory, and the unconscious; female and masculine sexuality; insanity and nervous disorders; and theories of degeneration. The book illuminates both the diversity and vitality of psychology in the pre-Freudian era and will help correct many of our misconceptions about theories of sexuality and the unconscious at this time. Embodies Selves will be of interest to both specialist and non-specialist audiences in the areas of cultural, literary, historical, and gender studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Jenny Bourne

Shuttleworth, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction

- List of Illustrations

- Part 1: Reading the Mind

- 1: Physiognomy

- 2: Phrenology

- 3: Mesmerism

- Part 2: The Unconscious and the Workings of Memory

- 5: Associationism and Physiological Psychology

- 6: Dreams

- 7: Double Consciousness

- 8: Memory

- Part 3: The Sexual Body

- 9: Defining Womanhood

- 10: The Uterine Economy

- 11: Masculinity and the Control of Sexuality

- Part 4: Insanity and Nervous Disorders

- 12: Moral Management and the Rise of the Psychiatrist

- 13: Monomania, Moral Insanity, and Moral Responsibility

- Part 5: Heredity, Degeneration, and Modern Life

- 14: Nervous Economies: Modernity and Morbidity

- 15: Concepts of Descent and Degeneration

- 16: Inherited Legacies: Idiocy and Criminality

- 17: Childhood

- 18: Race and Hybridity

- 19: Sex in Mind and Education

- Notes on Authors

- Bibliography