/398/ Emotion Sickness: The Politics of Feelings (II) ft. Ashley Frawley
Added 2024-03-19 07:00:04 +0000 UTCPart II of the series: on therapy and vulnerability.
Sociologist Ashley Frawley (and COO of Sublation Press) is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Significant Emotions. What is behind the seeming rise of public emotionalism and the focus on mental health?
- How was “happiness” a policy concern – and when did it disappear and why?
- What’s going on with universities and their focus on the mental health of students?
- Is there much emotion about, in a romantic sense of deep feeling?
- Or is it emotion ersatz, instrumentalised, superficial, sentimentalised?
- How does affect polarise politically Left and Right?
- Can we solve the crisis of subjectivity by focusing on the self?
- And who is the Big-Ass Subject?
Links:
- Significant Emotions: Rhetoric and Social Problems in a Vulnerable Age, Ashley Frawley, Bloomsbury
- Sublation Media
- Ashley's YouTube channel
Comments
This whole thing made me seethe and foam at the mouth. "Mental health" is just a modern reiteration of "sanity", first attested to refer to the soundness of mind in 1600. I mean, if you want to say that "health" is a total concept, encapsulating all of life into a single category--yeah, okay, fine; it is. But mental health has the same basic quality: it describes an area of life that all people share. Like nutrition or politics or art or anatomy. You can say, "I'm done with totalizing ideas!" But you'd be lying, and anyway, they aren't done with you. Better I say to stake a claim in what the relationship between mental health and freedom ought to be. The freedom to have bad health is probably a better place to start than claiming that doctors made up bodies to sell wounds.
Richard R
2024-03-30 18:13:16 +0000 UTCI listened all the way through this and the topic of the Big-Ass Subject remained in the gendered frame that never raised the question of the Big-Dick Subject.
Eli S
2024-03-19 23:02:25 +0000 UTC
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