Boredom / Elena Carrera.

By:

Carrera, Elena [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses,Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: 1 online resource (90 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)Content type:

text
still image

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781009412360

Subject(s):

Boredom

Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

152.4 23

LOC classification:

BF575.B67 C37 2023

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Summary: 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 analyses 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.

List(s) this item appears in: e-Book / ebook

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

No physical items for this record

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references.

Open access. Unrestricted online access. star

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 analyses 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.

Specialized.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 5, 2023).

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.