The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling animals Heavy lies the head that

Heavy lies the head that wears the cowl

Tokyo’s famous book district

Collecting a sample

But one of the most powerful explanations for why we struggle as adults is that we were denied the opportunity to fully be ourselves as children

She was coming to meet someone — her lover

The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling animals Heavy lies the head thatIn private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion