TY  - BOOK
AU  - GOLDSTEIN,Jan
TI  - The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and Psyche in France, 1750-1850 
SN  - 9780674016804
AV  - RC450.F7 -- G65 2005eb 
U1  - 155.2094409033 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Ego (Psychology)
KW  - Middle class
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Monomania
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Self
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Introduction: Psychological Interiority versus Self-Talk --; I. THE PROBLEM FOR WHICH PSYCHOLOGY FURNISHED A SOLUTION --; 1. The Perils of Imagination at the End of the Old Regime --; 2. The Revolutionary Schooling of Imagination --; II. THE POLITICS OF SELFHOOD --; 3. Is There a Self in This Mental Apparatus? --; 4. An A Priori Self for the Bourgeois Male: Victor Cousin's Project --; 5. Cousinian Hegemony --; 6. Religious and Secular Access to the Vie Intérieure: Renan at the Crossroads --; 7. A Palpable Self for the Socially Marginal: The Phrenological Alternative --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Note on Sources --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In the wake of the French Revolution, as attempts to restore political stability to France repeatedly failed, a group of concerned intellectuals identified a likely culprit: the prevalent sensationalist psychology, and especially the flimsy and fragmented self it produced. They proposed a vast, state-run pedagogical project to replace sensationalism with a new psychology that showcased an indivisible and actively willing self, or moi. As conceived and executed by Victor Cousin, this long-lived project singled out the male bourgeoisie for training in selfhood --Cousin and his disciples deemed workers and women incapable of the introspective finesse necessary to appropriate that self in practice
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