Legal Emotion: The Women's Story in Totem and Taboo

Authors

Arthur J. Jacobson, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawFollow

Abstract

My aim is to uncover the unconscious emotions characteristically associated with some basic legal institutions. These emotions are ones we invariably have when we follow or enforce rules, fulfill duties, and claim or exercise rights. We know the conscious emotions that we experience-the cruelty of rules and our fear of them, the hopes in rights, security of duties, and so forth. Yet not all the emotions that we encounter in basic legal institutions are conscious. We experience unconscious emotions as well.

Keywords

Gender and the Law, Law and Society, Psychiatry and Psychology, Economics Law

Disciplines

Law | Law and Society | Psychiatry and Psychology

Recommended Citation

Arthur J. Jacobson, Legal Emotion: The Women's Story in Totem and Taboo, 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 1139 (1995).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol16/iss3/14