Staging depth : Eugene O'Neill and the politics of psychological discourse /

Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop psychology in the 1910's and 1920's to reconstruct the cultural conditions for the imagining and popularizing of "depth", a trope that was central to O'Neill's dramatic vision

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pfister, Joel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Colección:Cultural studies of the United States.
Temas:
O'Neill, Eugene, > 1888-1953 > Knowledge > Psychology.
O'Neill, Eugene, > 1888-1953 > Et la psychologie.
O'Neill, Eugene, > 1888-1953.
O'Neill, Eugene, > (1888-1953) > Critique et interprétation.
O'Neill, Eugene, > (1888-1953) > Pensée politique et sociale.
O'Neill, Eugene, > (1888-1953) > Psychologie.
O'Neill, Eugene.
1900-1999
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Domestic drama, American > History and criticism.
Drama > Psychological aspects.
Middle class in literature.
Psychology in literature.
Families in literature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Théâtre bourgeois américain > Histoire et critique.
Classes moyennes dans la littérature.
Psychologie dans la littérature.
Familles dans la littérature.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Aspect psychologique.
DRAMA > American.
Domestic drama, American.
Literature and society.
Psychology.
Psychologie
Literatur
Cultuurverandering.
Verenigde Staten.
Historisch kritische methode.
Literatuursociologie.
Middenklassen.
Literatuurpsychologie.
Psychologie > Dans la littérature.
Classes moyennes > Dans la littérature.
Famille > Dans la littérature.
United States.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Alan Trachtenber
  • Introduction: the profession of "Depth"
  • Beyond biography
  • O'Neill and the making of the psychological family
  • The psychological dyad in the "Land of the mother complex" the historicity of ambivalence
  • "Depth" as a mass-cultural category
  • Pop psychology, the professional-managerial class, and the aesthetic of depth
  • The therapeutic playwright and therapeutic theatre
  • The production of "Psychological" common sense for the professional-managerial class
  • The psychological as a political and historical category
  • O'Neill's critique of psychological discourse and iceman
  • The ideological work of "Depth" O'Neill and the American left
  • Workers, race, and psychological primitives
  • O'Neill and the anarchist-feminist critique of personal life
  • The propaganda of "Life" O'Neill, the left, and social depth
  • Ah wilderness! and the reproduction of the middle class
  • Possessors, self-dispossessed
  • The trappings of theatre, gender, and desire.

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