an extent that it is in danger of becoming a "catch-all-cliché". More broadly, the concept of emotion work has itself been criticized as a wide over-simplification of mental processes such as repression and denial which continually occur in everyday life. Literary analogues Rousseau in The New Heloise suggests that the attempt to master instrumentally one's affective life always results in a weakening and eventually the fragmentation of one's identity, even if the emotion work is performed at the demand of ethical principles. See also References Further reading Emotion Emotional issues Life skills