Emotional Textual Analysis, the circumstantial method and the history of cultures

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Fiorella Bucci

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The present article intends to bring light on a season of intense developments and interdisciplinary interweaving in cultural studies that took place in Italy between the 1970s and the 1980s, within which the methodological perspective of the Emotional Textual Analysis came to be formed. In particular, my attention will focus on the connection between ETA and the perspective of microhistory proposed by Carlo Ginzburg, in the field of historical studies, more specifically his circumstantial paradigm. In the first part, I will review a series of writings in which Ginzburg makes reference to psychoanalysis, in particular to Freud's work; in the second part, I will say in which respect ETA proves to be, in a unique way in the field on psychological sciences, a methodology of a circumstantial type: I will dwell in particular on the study of etymology. The article provides also brief notes on the relationship between aspects of Carli and Paniccia's psychoanalytic cultural research work and Aby Warburg's cultural history of art.

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Theories or theory

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Bucci, F. (2024). Emotional Textual Analysis, the circumstantial method and the history of cultures. Quaderni Di Psicologia Clinica, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.82037/qpc.2024.948

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