Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of

Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America

Asking if the popular tendancy to define the self in psychological language derived from (Freudian) truths, or whether American culture invents and promotes psychological identities, this text shows the ways Americans imagine innerness and how emotions have been shaped by the mass-media.

Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America