Love in the Machine Age: A Psychological Study of the Transition from Patriarchal Society

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Floyd Dell

Love in the Machine Age

A Psychological Study of the Transition from Patriarchal Society

Floyd Dell

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Routledge
06 January 2025

Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Child & developmental psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; The self, ego, identity, personality; Sexual behaviour

Series: Psychology Revivals

First published in 1930, the object of Love in the Machine Age was to popularize a modern and scientific view of behavior, and thereby help people to live happy and successful lives. The author traces in popular language for the time, the break-up of the patriarchal values held by most of society, and points out from the standpoint of modern psychiatric knowledge the inevitable effects upon sexual mores, personality adjustments and the growth of children. Topics covered include marriage, parenting, adolescence, with special emphasis paid to the “mating problems” of youth. Taking its lead from psychological theories prevalent at the time, today it can be read in its historical context.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1930. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

By: Floyd Dell
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 966g
ISBN: 9781032951911
ISBN 10: 1032951915
Series: Psychology Revivals
Pages: 434
Publication Date: 06 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Adult education , Adult education , Primary , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. What This Book is About 2. Biology vs. History 3. The Decline and Fall of the Patriarchal System 4. Patriarchal Customs Become Modern Neuroses 5. Patriarchal Customs Become Modern Neuroses (continued) 6. Patriarchal vs. Modern Child-Training 7. Some Ideological Overcompensations 8. Some More Ideological Overcompensations 9. Still More Ideological Overcompensations 10. A Fair Warning to All 11. Delay and Failure in Reaching the Heterosexual Goal 12. The Four Paths of Youth 13. Adolescence and Heterosexuality 14. The Mating Age 1 5. The Modern Mating Problem 16. Art, Anxiety and Manners 17. Do We Need a Philosophy of Life? Bibliography. Notes and References. Index.

Floyd Dell (1887-1969) was one of the central figures of the Chicago literary renaissance and Greenwich Village bohemianism of the early twentieth century. He was a pivotal American writer whose advocacy of feminism, socialism, psychoanalysis, and progressive education shocked the American bourgeoisie. His novels, plays, essays, and bohemian life came to epitomize the Greenwich Village avant-garde of the 1910s and 1920s. Managing editor of radical magazine The Masses, Dell was twice put on trial for publishing subversive literature. Dell has been called “one of the most flamboyant, versatile and influential American men of letters of the first third of the Twentieth Century.”

Reviews for Love in the Machine Age: A Psychological Study of the Transition from Patriarchal Society

"Review for the original edition: 'As an interesting and intelligent statement of some of the most recent findings concerning the individual and social implications of sex behavior ""Love in the Machine Age"" may be recommended as a valuable contribution.' - Journal of Educational Psychology"