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| #786737 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2004-01-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.12 x.60 x7.56l,.77 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | ||62 of 65 people found the following review helpful.| An important but problematic book|By Douglas Robinson|Teresa Brennan's book argues essentially that we feel each others' feelings, and that we used to know this--various civil and religious codes are records of such awareness--but in our eagerness to establish our separateness (what Brennan calls our "self-containment"), we have forgotten. In the course of demonstrating her t|About the Author|The late Teresa Brennan was Schmidt Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Florida Atlantic University. Her books include Exhausting Modernity: Ground for a New Modernity and The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity.|
The idea that one can soak up someone else's depression or anxiety or sense the tension in a room is familiar. Indeed, phrases that capture this notion abound in the popular vernacular: "negative energy," "dumping," "you could cut the tension with a knife." The Transmission of Affect deals with the belief that the emotions and energies of one person or group can be absorbed by or can enter directly into another.
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