1st Edition
Dark Emotions Difficult Emotional Experiences in Social and Everyday Life
Preface and acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction The darkness within and without
- Exploring dark emotions in contemporary culture and everyday life
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Chapter 1 Disappointment
- When things turn out wrong or worse than wanted
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Chapter 2 Regret
- In the crossroads of individuality, responsibility and agency
Maria Madalena d’Avelar
Chapter 3 Worry
- Friend or foe?
Kate Sweeny and Olivia T. Karaman
Chapter 4 Vulnerability
- A restricting and enabling emotion
Barbara A. Misztal
Chapter 5 Resentment
- A complex socialmoral and political emotion
Maria F. Gritsch and Warren D. TenHouten
Chapter 6 Hate
- A social functional theory of group-based hate
Agneta H. Fischer
Chapter 7 Betrayal
- Towards a sociology of treachery
Malin Åkerström
Chapter 8 Panic
- Fight or flight in a culture of fear?
Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Peter Clement Lund
Chapter 9 Paranoia
- From a personality disorder to a sociological phenomenon
Stef Aupers and Kamile Grusauskaite
Chapter 10 Melancholy
- What is it and what is it good for?
Mathea Slåttholm Sagdahl
Chapter 11 Apathy
- Is a lack of feeling our default condition?
Anna Zhelnina
Chapter 12 Alienation
- From classical to contemporary critical perspectives
Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Warren D. TenHouten
Index
Biography
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research focuses on emotions, death and dying, palliative care, crime, literary sociology, social theory, qualitative research methodology and utopia/ nostalgia.
