Boredom

Klappentext This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. It discusses the changing perspectives on boredom within psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis on both sides of the Atlantic in the last 100 years. It also analyzes visual and textual material from France, Germany, Britain, Argentina and Spain, which illustrates the kinds of social situations, people and interactions that have been considered tedious or boring in the past five centuries. Examining the multidirectional ways in which words like ennuyeux, 'tedious', langweilig, aburrido and 'boring' have been transferred between different cultural contexts (to denote a range of interrelated feelings that include displeasure, unease and annoyance), it demonstrates how the terms, concepts and categories through which individuals have experienced their states of mind are not simply culture-bound. They have also travelled across geographical and linguistic barriers, through translation, imitation and adaptation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Vorwort A cross-cultural, intersubjective history of 500 years of boring social interactions and of 100 years of psychological studies of boredom. Zusammenfassung This Element challenges prevailing views of boredom as a modern phenomenon and as an experience occurring inside our minds. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Boredom? What? How?; 2. What Has Been Boring, Tedious and Ennuyeux in the Last 500 Years?; Conclusion; References.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Carrera, Elena (Queen Mary University of London) Carrera, Carrera Elena
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009412384
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0941238-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychology: emotions, Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics