Episode Details

On melodrama and the bourgeois subject.   [Patreon Exclusive]   We're back with the next installment of our series on the "emotional turn". Alex talks to Catherine Liu about whether politics is staged in a "melodramatic" fashion today.

• What is the bourgeois subject, why was it good, and where did it go?
• What is melodrama?
• Does public crying make us feel connected? Is it all Oprah's fault?
• Why is psychoanalysis the solution to, not the cause of, therapy culture?
• How is indignation used today? Is the political scene just villains and victims?

Links:

• Emotion Sickness I ft. Nina Power
• Emotion Sickness II ft. Ashley Frawley
• Emotion Sickness III ft. Alex Hochuli
• Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery, Eva Illouz
• Interview with Christine Gledhill, from the book Melodrama After the Tears