Introduction PART 1: EMOTIONS, CONFLICT AND SETTLEMENT: A NEW DURKHEIMIAN APPROACH Rituals Elicit Emotions to Define and Shape Public Life: A Neo-Durkheimian Theory; Perri 6 The Emotions at War: Atrocity as Piacular Rite in Sierra Leone; P.Richards Public Emotion in a Colonial Context: A Case of Spirit-Writing in Taiwan Under Japanese Occupation; S.Feuchtwang PART 2: INTRAPSYCHIC AND 'PUBLIC' EMOTIONS Anxiety, Mass Crisis and 'The Other'; H.Joffe Another Repressed Returns: The Re-Branding of German Psychoanalysis; S.Frosh Surface Tensions: Emotion, Conflict and the Social Containment of Dangerous Knowledge; A.Cooper Private Solutions to Public Problems? Psychoanalysis and the Emotions; M.Rustin PART 3: CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL FORMATIONS OF EMOTION Theory and Affect: Undivided Worlds; S.Radstone Feeling Entitled: HIV, Entitlement Feelings and Citizenship; C.Squire The Future is Not There for the Making: Enduring Colonialism, Shame and Silence; A.Treacher Index