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Getting in Touch with Their Feelings?

In: Worked Up Selves

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  • Elaine Swan

    (Lancaster University Management School)

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In the previous chapter I explored the multiple, and complex ways in which workers conceptualise transformation of the self in personal development practices. I argued that these very different models of transformation were re-conceptualising contemporary understandings of the self, and its relations with the self, as evidenced by the increasing replacement of the traditional model of transformation as a journey by concepts of the ‘makeover’ and the ‘quick fix’. I concluded that many of these models draw upon complex temporalities that have moved away from uni-linear progressive models, which enable fantasies of the power of the self and its capacities for self-transformation. I argued that this is significant at a time when self-transformation has become a cultural imperative. In the workers’ discussions on self-transformation, the significance of emotions is a constant theme, albeit conceptualised in different ways.

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  • Elaine Swan, 2010. "Getting in Touch with Their Feelings?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Worked Up Selves, chapter 7, pages 173-205, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-24676-8_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230246768_7
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