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• Aloneness
• Living with...(m)other
• True self
• Becoming a living reality
• False self
• On celebration and ruthlessness
• Transitional objects
• The uses of illusion
• Communicating/not communicating
• Being and potential space
• Object relating
• The use of an object
• The vitality of aggression
• Morals
• Playing and creativity.

"This book explores the imaginative processes at work in the artefacts of Classical Athens, building a diverse picture of culturally mediated thought in this period, prior to the development of explicit theories of the imagination in the centuries after Plato and Aristotle. When ancient Athenians strove to grasp 'justice' or 'war' or 'death', when they had dreams or encountered ghosts, when they deliberated upon problems, how did they do it? Did they think about what they were doing? Did they worry about it? Did they imagine an imagining mind? European notions of the imagination have often begun with philosophical theories, such as those of Aristotle. This volume is premised upon the idea that imaginative activity, especially efforts to articulate it, can take place in the absence of technical terminology or formal theory as developed in later periods. In exploring the imagination and self-reflection mediated by art and literature, the book scopes out the cultural roots of later, more explicit, theoretical enquiry. Taken together, the chapters explore a range of visual and verbal cultural artefacts from the Classical period. Approaching the topic from different angles - philosophical, historical, philological, literary, and art historical - they turn attention upon how these artefacts stimulate affective, sensory, meditative - in short, 'imaginative' - encounters between imagining bodies and their world. The Imagination of the Mind in Classical Athens offers a fascinating reassessment of "imagination" in ancient Greek culture and thought, of interest to students and scholars researching ancient philosophies of mind, as well as those working on ancient philosophy, art, and Greek culture, thought, and literature more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preference, reason and agency
• Freedom of choice: source and leeway
• Reason, preference and freedom

"Freedom of choice is the subject. "How dare you!" challenged Greta Thunberg. The members of the Climate Summit had freedom of choice to act on the scientific evidence she presented rather than on personal desire. What is the difference between acting on desire and acting on what you prefer because of scientific acceptance? There is a form of preference that is an ultimate explanation of choice. I call it a power preference. It is a preference that loops back on to itself, a fixed-point vector, and suffices to explain human agency. The power preference includes scientific explanation and is compatible with determinism"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preference, reason and agency
• Freedom of choice: source and leeway
• Reason, preference and freedom

"The year 2020 emerged as a pivotal moment in modern history, in many overlapping and mutually reinforced ways. 2020 Dreams: Toward a New Understanding of the Dreaming-Waking Continuum is an interactive digital project that illuminates the dramatic and epochal events of that year as witnessed from the vantage of collective dreaming. Using innovative tools of digital analysis, 2020 Dreams follows the 2000+ dreams of ten avid dreamers and interweaves the data presented in their journals with thousands of survey responses gathered over the course of the year. The dreams--about environmental problems, the COVID-19 outbreak, racial justice protests, the immigration crisis, economic upheaval, social media anxieties, US electoral politics, and more--reflect people's shared emotional experiences during a year of immense social turmoil. Many of the dreams are nightmares, some are strangely amusing, and others offer creative visions of hope for a future beyond the dire challenges of the present. The project invites readers into an analytic dreamscape, reflecting the multiple dimensions of dream meaning through multilinear navigational paths and interactive data visualizations. Integrating digital methodologies with digital presentation, 2020 Dreams advances a new era of improved dream research methodology, and invites a wider range of people to participate in the field of dream analysis"--Publisher description

"A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story--involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes--has become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture since. Historian Matthew Bowman examines the Hills' story not only as a foundational piece of UFO folklore but also as a microcosm of 1960s America. The Hills, an interracial couple who lived in New Hampshire, were civil rights activists, supporters of liberal politics, and Unitarians. But when their story of abduction was repeatedly ignored or discounted by authorities, they lost faith in the scientific establishment, the American government, and the success of the civil rights movement. Bowman tells the fascinating story of the Hills as an account of the shifting winds in American politics and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. He exposes the promise and fallout of the idealistic reforms of the 1960s and how the myth of political consensus has given way to the cynicism and conspiratorialism and the paranoia and illusion of American life today."--Dust jacket.

• Introduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell
• Tensions, In Solution
• The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack
• Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen
• Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson
• Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer
• Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller
• Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form
• Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich
• Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino
• Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley
• Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani
• Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival
• Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner
• Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza
• The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson
• The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of its Necessary Modesty
• Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson
• Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor
• Erin Manning
• Emotions and Affects of Convolution
• Lisa Blackman
• Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia Macón
• A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social
• The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read
• Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-Román
• Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar
• Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson
• A Note / Kathleen Stewart
• Poisonality / Lauren Berlant.

"Building on the foundational The Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies. It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. Tracing affect's resonances with today's most critical debates, The Affect Theory Reader 2 will reorient and disorient readers to the past, present, and future potentials of affect theory"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface: The Unwelcome Guest
• What Is the Super-Ego?
• Did Freud Discover the Super-Ego?
• The Super-Ego's Public History 1: Nietzsche
• The Super-Ego's Public History 2: Arendt
• The Personal History of the Super-Ego
• The Future of the Super-Ego
• Super-Ego Dreams
• The Post-Modern Super-Ego
• Death and the Super-Ego
• Politics and the Super-Ego 1: Hypnotized!
• Politics and the Super-Ego 2: Social Justice
• Politics and the Super-Ego 3: The Blessed and the Damned
• Are the Kids Alright?
• Identity!
• Super-Ego Drugs: Adderall and Amphetamines
• Internet!
• The Super-Ego and the Sense of Time
• Beauty and the Super-Ego
• Patriarchy and the Super-Ego
• The Super-Ego and Race
• Crack a Joke
• Get Lucky
• Get Drunk
• Take a Pill
• Get Religion
• Get a Shrink 1
• Get a Shrink 2
• Embrace the Ideals
• Bibliographic Essay

"Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum for cruelty and judgment? Can a whole culture become mentally ill? How do we understand and respond to this problem? Mark Edmundson views contemporary culture and discourse through Freud's concept of the super-ego, the moralistic and frequently irrational inner judge. The poet William Blake was attuned to this "dark pressure of self-condemnation," and Nietzsche knew its power as well. One way to mitigate (temporarily) the self-judgment of the super-ego is to aim it outward instead, judging and even punishing others for supposed infractions. Naturally these targets fight back, resulting in a cascade of bitterness and even hatred. Edmundson traces the destructive passion of the super-ego on politics, race, gender, class, education, and more, drawing on psychological studies, classroom experience, and the work of Adam Phillips and Slavoj Žižek. Edmundson proposes ways to manage the super-ego and even to transform it into an affirmative power"-- Amazon

• Preface: The Unwelcome Guest
• What Is the Super-Ego?
• Did Freud Discover the Super-Ego?
• The Super-Ego's Public History 1: Nietzsche
• The Super-Ego's Public History 2: Arendt
• The Personal History of the Super-Ego
• The Future of the Super-Ego
• Super-Ego Dreams
• The Post-Modern Super-Ego
• Death and the Super-Ego
• Politics and the Super-Ego 1: Hypnotized!
• Politics and the Super-Ego 2: Social Justice
• Politics and the Super-Ego 3: The Blessed and the Damned
• Are the Kids Alright?
• Identity!
• Super-Ego Drugs: Adderall and Amphetamines
• Internet!
• The Super-Ego and the Sense of Time
• Beauty and the Super-Ego
• Patriarchy and the Super-Ego
• The Super-Ego and Race
• Crack a Joke
• Get Lucky
• Get Drunk
• Take a Pill
• Get Religion
• Get a Shrink 1
• Get a Shrink 2
• Embrace the Ideals
• Bibliographic Essay

"These days, everyone feels insecure. We are financially precarious, overwhelmed and anxious, and worried about the future. While millions endure the stress of struggling to make ends meet, in reality, the status quo isn't working for anyone, even the affluent and comparatively privileged; they, too, are deeply insecure. What is going on? The Age of Insecurity exposes how seemingly disparate crises -- our suffering mental health and rising inequality, the ecological emergency, and the threat of fascism -- are tied to the fact that our social order runs on insecurity. Across disparate sectors, from policing and the military to the wellness and beauty industries, the systems that promise us security instead actively undermine it. We are all made insecure on purpose, and our endless striving shapes how we feel about ourselves and others -- including what we believe is personally and collectively possible. The Age of Insecurity sheds new light on our contemporary predicament, exposing the psychological and political costs of the insecurity-generating status quo, while proposing ways to forge a new path forward."-- Provided by publisher.

"A book that invites you to listen more closely to the beepers, bells, and buzzers that have shaped modern minds"-- Provided by publisher

"American Heresy uncovers the complex legacy of America's founding principles, demonstrating how the very same values have produced both good fruit and the bitter harvest of white Christian nationalism. Fanestil adeptly traces an early American story that reaches into our present with alarming immediacy"-- Provided by publisher.