An Emotional State - 9780472036813

An Emotional StateThe Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture\nAuthor(s): Anna M. Parkinson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472036813, 978-0472036813\nSynopsis\nThis literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an inability to mourn, arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or addressed in a variety of German cultural artifacts, while also identifying previously unacknowledged (and undertheorized) affective structures implicitly at work during the countrys national crisis. Much of the scholarship in the expanding field of affect theory distrusts Freudian psychoanalysis, which does not differentiate between emotion and affect. One of the books major contributions is that it offers an analytical disti.