Dark Emotions -

Dark Emotions

Difficult Emotional Experiences in Social and Everyday Life

Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-58375-4 (ISBN)
159,95 inkl. MwSt
Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as ’negative’, ’disturbing’ or ’dark’ as contrasted with emotions that are ’positive’, pleasant’ or ’light’.
Dark Emotions is a book about a range of emotional experiences that are often regarded or characterized as ‘negative’, ‘disturbing’ or ‘dark’ as contrasted with emotions that are ‘positive’, ‘pleasant’ or ‘light’.

Each chapter in the book is devoted to introducing different ‘dark emotions’ such as disappointment, betrayal, worry, regret, resentment and alienation and seeks to show – through conceptual, theoretical and empirical examples – how these emotions influence peoples’ lives and their relations to self, others and society. The book thus provides an overview of some dark emotions that are recognizable in our everyday lives and culture. It contains accessible introductions and relevant theoretical and empirical research on 12 different kinds of ‘dark emotions’. The chapters are highly useful for teaching sessions and research contexts. Additionally, they provide extensive lists of references for further reading.

The book will be particularly useful for students or scholars with an interest in emotion research or related areas, and the book may inspire further investigation of the often- overlooked emotions presented in this volume.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on emotions, death and dying, palliative care, crime, literary sociology, social theory, qualitative research methodology and utopia/ nostalgia.

Preface and acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction The darkness within and without

- Exploring dark emotions in contemporary culture and everyday life

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 1 Disappointment

- When things turn out wrong or worse than wanted

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Chapter 2 Regret

- In the crossroads of individuality, responsibility and agency

Maria Madalena d’Avelar

Chapter 3 Worry

- Friend or foe?

Kate Sweeny and Olivia T. Karaman

Chapter 4 Vulnerability

- A restricting and enabling emotion

Barbara A. Misztal

Chapter 5 Resentment

- A complex socialmoral and political emotion

Maria F. Gritsch and Warren D. TenHouten

Chapter 6 Hate

- A social functional theory of group-based hate

Agneta H. Fischer

Chapter 7 Betrayal

- Towards a sociology of treachery

Malin Åkerström

Chapter 8 Panic

- Fight or flight in a culture of fear?

Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Peter Clement Lund

Chapter 9 Paranoia

- From a personality disorder to a sociological phenomenon

Stef Aupers and Kamile Grusauskaite

Chapter 10 Melancholy

- What is it and what is it good for?

Mathea Slåttholm Sagdahl

Chapter 11 Apathy

- Is a lack of feeling our default condition?

Anna Zhelnina

Chapter 12 Alienation

- From classical to contemporary critical perspectives

Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Warren D. TenHouten

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
Zusatzinfo 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-032-58375-4 / 1032583754
ISBN-13 978-1-032-58375-4 / 9781032583754
Zustand Neuware
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