A Wall of Ideas: The "Taboo on Tenderness" in Theory and Culture

Miller, Gavin

doi:10.1353/nlh.2008.0010

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“…Beröring är en symbolisk interaktion som handlar om i vilken utsträckning man tar på varandra . En interaktion som är omgärdat av tabun (Miller 2007) och antropologer menar att tabubegrepp hjälper till att definiera gruppnormer och roller (Schoemaker & Tetlock 2012) . I Polarfjorden är maskulinitet viktig, men det anses inte omanligt att en man klappar eller kramar om en annan man .…”

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Sandén¹,

Thulesius²,

Harryson³

2015

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ulrika sandén, hans thulesius och lars harrysson Nuets förnöjsamhetEn grundad teori om livsval och överlevnadsstrategier Contentment in the moment "Contentment in the moment" is a classic grounded theory exploring safety and contentment within a small community in northern Norway . The purpose of the study was to explore the village's everyday life from a participant's perspective and to develop an understanding of their living conditions . We found different survival strategies, which have their roots in the village's history of poverty, isolation and harsh climate . Today these strategies have changed from a matter of life and death to a modern psychosocial foundation of contentment . The study is based on four and a half years of observations, in-depth interviews and informal but focused conversations with people living in Polarfjorden . The data was analysed using the constant comparative method of classic grounded theory . In this article we further relate our work to more general sociological theory, more specifically to Charles Tilly's work on reason and routines .

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Sandén¹,

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Harryson³

2015

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“…The importance of Suttie's work is becoming recognized and discussed in a wider context, in which some of the most interesting work on the social, cultural, and historical aspects of British object relations thinking is found (Cassullo and Capello 2010: Gerson 2004, 2009Miller 2007Miller , 2008a, but unfortunately Suttie remains outside the psychoanalytic mainstream. For instance, The Origins of Love and Hate is not among the books in the PEP database; where Suttie does appear in the journal papers in PEP, there is little substantive discussion of his work, and his influence is stated briefly rather than argued in any depth.…”

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Suttie’s Influence on Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory

Clarke

2011

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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It is suggested here that Ian Suttie influenced W. R. D. Fairbairn directly through a 1939 reprint of his The Origins of Love and Hate, a heavily underlined copy of which was found by the author in Fairbairn's library in the University of Edinburgh Library Special Collections in October 2009. Underlined sections of the book are compared with significant aspects of Fairbairn's post-1940 theorizing, and the similarities are argued to be due to Fairbairn's adopting many of the underlying attitudes and ideas that Suttie developed. This leaves Fairbairn's structural theory, which he began to develop as a rational reconstruction of Freud's structural theory as early as 1927, dependent in part on such theory but independent of direct influence by Suttie. It is argued that Suttie's importance vis-à-vis British object relations thinking needs to be reassessed.

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“…28 Tompkins's recuperation of affective response is not isolated: her work bears a family resemblance to Robert c. Solomon's defense of sentimental literary response, 29 and also to my own attack on what he perceives as a "taboo on tenderness" in literary theory. 30 The work of Tompkins, Solomon, and myself can be seen as a prolonged attack on the apathetic fallacy within the realm of reader response-just as Knapp and Michaels can be regarded as exposing and attacking the apathetic fallacy in literary semantics, and just as i may be regarded as criticizing the apathetic fallacy in Jameson's Lacan-inspired literary theory (and also in Lacanian theory, per se).…”

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The Apathetic Fallacy

Miller¹

2010

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The "apathetic fallacy" dominates literary criticism: to make critical inquiry "epistemologically objective" (rational and disinterested) literary critics have mistakenly tried to restrict their study to that which is "ontologically objective" (not a matter of subjective reality). Absurdity results, particularly when, because of a combination of New Critical orthodoxy, and cherry-picked psychoanalytic concepts, intentional meaning is denigrated as "merely" subjective. Fredric Jameson's account of postmodernism is a case-study in such absurdity; further folly can be avoided only by a disciplinary audit that purges literary inquiry of the "apathetic fallacy."

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A Wall of Ideas: The "Taboo on Tenderness" in Theory and Culture

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

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