著者

伊東 剛史

出版者

日本感情心理学会

雑誌

エモーション・スタディーズ

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, no.1, pp.37-44, 2020

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<p>This article discusses how the historical study of emotions, which emerged during the period from the 1910s to the 1940s, took ideas and inspirations from psychology. During this period, the basis for the history of senses and feelings was laid out by Johan Huizinga and Lucian Febvre. Much has been written about the roles played by the two historians, especially the latter, in bringing the methods and methodologies of other disciplines such as anthropology and sociology into the historical investigation of the emotional life of people in the past. Yet the contribution of psychology has hitherto been relatively understated. To fill the gap, the article analyses the psychological origin of the history of emotions. It argues that while Huizinga took a nuanced attitude towards natural sciences including physiological psychology, Febvre pleaded for the collaboration between history and psychology and appropriated the dialectical paradigm from Henri Wallon. Wallon's theory of the cognitive development, together with his holistic understanding of the human mind, was drawn into Febvre's conception of the emotional history of civilization. It is hard to overestimate the significance of the collaboration between historians and psychologists of emotions during the years leading to the Second World War. It can be discussed and shared across the boundaries of academic disciplines in the present era. The dialogue with the past helps navigate emotion studies to the future.</p>