Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional CapitalismISBN: 978-0-7456-3904-8
Hardcover
144 pages
February 2007, Polity
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Acknowledgments vi
1 The Rise of Homo Sentimentalis 1
Freud and the Clark lectures 5
A new emotional style 16
The communicative ethic as the spirit of the corporation 18
The roses and thorns of the modern family 24
Conclusion 36
2 Suffering, Emotional Fields, and Emotional Capital 40
Introduction 40
The self-realization narrative 43
Emotional fields, emotional habitus 62
The pragmatics of psychology 67
Conclusion 71
3 Romantic Webs 74
Romancing the Internet 75
Virtual meetings 76
Ontological self-presentation 79
Fantasy and disappointment 95
Conclusion: A new Machiavellian move 108
Notes 115
Index 130