She took as an example a New York radio talk show she had heard, in which callers sought emotional advice from a pro- fessional psychologist. What struck me most about what I heard was that the psychologist kept asking over and over, “How did you feel?” – How do you feel when this happens, what did you feel when he said that, what did you feel when he did that? She took for granted this mode of getting at the truth, this focus on emotions as touchstones of personal reality. And I suspect that the poor caller, had she later gone into therapy, would have learned to populate her narratives about herself and her relationships with a legion of emotions too. She would have learned to practice on herself and on others, to adapt a notion from Foucault (1985:5), a hermeneutics of feeling. (Abu-Lughod 1990:24