Social Economies of Fear and Desire

VALÉRIE DE COURVILLE NICOL Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Introduction: Analyzing emotional selves PART I: EMBODIED IN/CAPACITY THEORY Chapter 1: Analyzing fear and desire Relational threat and relational promise: the anticipation of pain and pleasure Fear, desire, and the hope response Emotional norms: fear and desire forms in relational context Emotional norm pairs Chapter 2: Analyzing emotional interaction Affective, agential, and symbolic attunement Three modalities of fear and desire: panic/excitement, anxiety/interest, and distress/relief Fearing fear and desiring desire: the emergence of internal (moral) conflict Emotional blending and emotional differentiation Chapter 3: Analyzing autonomous selves Biological, subjective, and moral autonomy: unindividuated, self-involved, and other-directed kinds Conceptualizing embodied autonomy Subjective, moral, and social emotional experiences and emotions PART II: EMOTIONAL ECONOMIES Chapter 4: Analyzing moral danger and self-fear From subjective to moral autonomy: the process of responsibilization Explanations for the rise in experiences of self-fear Forms of self-control and forms of moral suffering On physical coercion and moral responsibility Chapter 5: Analyzing social interaction Emotional regulation, hedonic power, and emotion management Social dis/approval: shame/pride and personal insecurity/self-esteem as moral experiences of social danger and social security Moral actions of social conformity Chapter 6: Analyzing emotion management Interacting with The Managed Heart Lying, acting, and emotion management Emotives, modalities of fear and desire, and moral self-control Chapter 7: Analyzing emotional campaigns Master emotional norm pairs: from self-discipline to self-realization Campaigns of fear, campaigns of desire Contemporary emotion management efforts Chapter 8: Analyzing self-discipline and self-realization From the fear of desire to the fear of fear Culture of fear critics Situation assimilation and the mass media