The Happiness Myth_ An Expose - Jennifer Hecht [190]
Webb, Beatrice
Webb, Sidney
Weber, Max
weddings
Weil, Dr. Andrew
Wells, H. G.
Western Health Reform Institute (Kellogg’s spa)
Wharton, Edith
Custom of the Country
What the Bleep Do We Know? (film)
White, Ellen G.
Wilson, Owen (The Wedding Crashers)
wine:
in Christian Bible
in Christianity
desire and moderation
Dionysus and
as entheogen
Epicurus on
in fairy tales
in Hebrew Bible
in Islam
Koheleth (Ecclesiastes) on
in laudanum
and longevity
Mormons and
Passover cups
Pemberton’s French Wine Coca
Plato’s Symposium and
in poetry on happiness
Psalm
Wine Jugs Day of Anthesteria
Winfrey, Oprah
Winnicott, Dr. D. W. (Donald Woods)
Withey, Stephen B.
wolf
anti-fur empathy for
as boundary mark of civilization
breastfed by human women
in common phrases
Gustave Dore’s etching
eating pigs as children
eating real children
emulated by women
in fairy tales n.
finally mastered
as hunger symbol
Into the Woods
Kellogg’s tamed wolf
“Little Red Riding Hood”
in Moonstruck
in a nightgown
in Nightwood
Charles Perrault version
Romulus and Remus
as sexual danger and desire
vs. shark
“Three Little Pigs”
visions and dreams
Worf of Star Trek as wolf
“wolf at the door”
World Fairs
worry, see anxiety
Wright, Dr. Hamilton Kemp
Yates, James
Yeats, William Butler (“Vacillation”)
yin/yang
Yom Kippur
Young, Dr. George
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Zen
Zeus
Zola, Emile
Zoroastrians
About the Author
JENNIFER MICHAEL HECHT is a philosopher, historian, and award-winning poet. She is the author of Doubt: A History and The End of the Soul—the latter won the Phi Beta Kappa Society’s 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Hecht’s books of poetry include The Next Ancient World and Funny. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and teaches at The New School. Visit the author online at www.jennifermichaelhecht.com.
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Copyright
THE HAPPINESS MYTH: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong. Copyright © 2007 by Jennifer Michael Hecht. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
ePub edition March 2007 ISBN 9780061744891
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Get Happy Myths of the Modern Mind
Wisdom
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Drugs
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Money
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Bodies
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Celebration
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Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher