The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture

by Nancy J. Chodorow

In this pathbreaking book a leading contemporary thinker brings together psychoanalysis, anthropology, and gender analysis to create an original theory about the ways in which we look at ourselves. The "power of feelings" -- the individual subjective meaning we bring to our experiences -- are at least as important as their cultural and social meanings, claims Nancy J. Chodorow.

Genres: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Sociology, Anthropology

352 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 1999

About the author

Nancy Julia Chodorow is a feminist sociologist and psychoanalyst educated at Radcliffe College and Brandeis University. She has written a number of influential books, including The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (1978); Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989); Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond (1994); and The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999).

She is widely regarded as a leading psychoanalytic feminist theorist and is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association, often speaking at its congresses. She spent many years as a professor in the departments of sociology and clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. She retired from the University of California in 2005.
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Reviews

[Kaplumbağa Felsefecisi]

Yazar " kişisel psikodinamik anlamların genelde kültür, dil ve söylem kadar anlamın temelini oluşturduğu ve duyguların gücüyle yaratılan kişisel anlamın insan yaşamının merkezi olduğu"nu açıklıyor.
Kitabın seyri birçok psikanlist ve antropologun görüşlerini ele alarak ilerliyor.
Oldukça keyifli bir okumaydı.

[HK]

A very thoughtful book for what it is. An exploration of various theories of emotions, especially psychoanalytic. Extremely dry and nearly impossible to read for almost everyone.