Staging depth : Eugene O'Neill and the politics of psychological discourse / by Joel Pfister.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-313) and index.

Foreword / Alan Trachtenber -- Introduction: the profession of "Depth" -- Beyond biography -- O'Neill and the making of the psychological family -- The psychological dyad in the "Land of the mother complex" the historicity of ambivalence -- "Depth" as a mass-cultural category -- Pop psychology, the professional-managerial class, and the aesthetic of depth -- The therapeutic playwright and therapeutic theatre -- The production of "Psychological" common sense for the professional-managerial class -- The psychological as a political and historical category -- O'Neill's critique of psychological discourse and iceman -- The ideological work of "Depth" O'Neill and the American left -- Workers, race, and psychological primitives -- O'Neill and the anarchist-feminist critique of personal life -- The propaganda of "Life" O'Neill, the left, and social depth -- Ah wilderness! and the reproduction of the middle class -- Possessors, self-dispossessed -- The trappings of theatre, gender, and desire.

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Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop psychology in the 1910's and 1920's to reconstruct the cultural conditions for the imagining and popularizing of "depth", a trope that was central to O'Neill's dramatic vision.

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