Title Staging depth : Eugene O'Neill and the politics of psychological discourse / by Joel Pfister

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 327 pages) : illustrations Series Cultural studies of the United States Cultural studies of the United States. Contents Foreword / Alan Trachtenber -- Introduction: the profession of "Depth" -- Beyond biography -- O'Neill and the making of the psychological family -- The psychological dyad in the "Land of the mother complex" the historicity of ambivalence -- "Depth" as a mass-cultural category -- Pop psychology, the professional-managerial class, and the aesthetic of depth -- The therapeutic playwright and therapeutic theatre -- The production of "Psychological" common sense for the professional-managerial class -- The psychological as a political and historical category -- O'Neill's critique of psychological discourse and iceman -- The ideological work of "Depth" O'Neill and the American left -- Workers, race, and psychological primitives -- O'Neill and the anarchist-feminist critique of personal life -- The propaganda of "Life" O'Neill, the left, and social depth -- Ah wilderness! and the reproduction of the middle class -- Possessors, self-dispossessed -- The trappings of theatre, gender, and desire Summary Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop psychology in the 1910's and 1920's to reconstruct the cultural conditions for the imagining and popularizing of "depth", a trope that was central to O'Neill's dramatic vision Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-313) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 -- Knowledge -- Psychology SUBJECT O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 fast O'Neill, Eugene, (1888-1953) -- Critique et interprétation. ram O'Neill, Eugene, (1888-1953) -- Pensée politique et sociale. ram O'Neill, Eugene, (1888-1953) -- Psychologie. ram O'Neill, Eugene. swd Subject Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century Domestic drama, American -- History and criticism Drama -- Psychological aspects Middle class in literature. Psychology in literature. Families in literature. DRAMA -- American. Domestic drama, American Drama -- Psychological aspects Families in literature Literature and society Middle class in literature Psychology Psychology in literature Psychologie Literatur Cultuurverandering. Verenigde Staten. Historisch kritische methode. Literatuursociologie. Middenklassen. Literatuurpsychologie. Psychologie -- Dans la littérature. Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle. Classes moyennes -- Dans la littérature. Famille -- Dans la littérature. United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 94026336 ISBN 0585026491 9780585026497 0807863858 9780807863855 9798890886842

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