Scenes of shame : psychoanalysis, shame, and writing
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Scenes of shame : psychoanalysis, shame, and writing
（SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture）
State University of New York Press, c1999
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- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The significance of shame as a critical human emotion has come to be recognized in the fields of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and psychology. Scenes of Shame brings this body of theory to bear on literary and philosophical representations of shame. The contributors explore the role of shame as an important affect in the psychodynamics of a wide range of literary and philosophical works, including essays on Kierkegaard, Hawthorne, George Eliot, Nietzsche, Lawrence, Faulkner, Sexton, and Toni Morrison. The book also includes an analysis of the problem of shame in student lifewriting in the classroom, and testifies to the importance of affect in philosophy and literature, as well as to the way in which imaginative writers can clarify and enrich our understanding of an emotion that, as Silvan Tomkins claims, "strikes deepest" into the human heart.
Table of Contents
Foreword Acknowledgments
Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Shame, Affect, Writing
Joseph Adamson and Hilary Clark
Chapter 2 The Disappearing Who: Kierkegaard, Shame, and the Self
Benjamin Kilborne
Chapter 3 Guardian of the "Inmost Me": Hawthorne and Shame
Joseph Adamson
Chapter 4 Ardor and Shame in Middlemarch
Gordon Hirsch
Chapter 5 George Eliot and Dilemmas of the Female Child
Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Chapter 6 "Man of the Most Dangerous Curiosity": Nietszche's "Fruitful and Frightful Vision" and His War against Shame
Léon Wurmser
Chapter 7 "The Dread and Repulsiveness of the Wild": D. H. Lawrence and Shame
Barbara Schapiro
Chapter 8 Shame in Japan and the American South: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
Philip Collington
Chapter 9 Depression, Shame, and Reparation: The Case of Anne Sexton
Hilary Clark
Chapter 10 "Quiet As It's Kept": Shame and Trauma in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
J. Brooks Bouson
Chapter 11 Unmasking Shame in an Expository Writing Course
Jeffrey Berman
Name Index
Subject Index
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