Format:
1 online resource (204 pages)
ISBN:
9781400827985
Series Statement:
20/21 Ser
Content:
Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? After the Holocaust, survivors often reported feeling guilty for living when so many others had died, and in the 1960s psychoanalysts and psychiatrists in the United States helped make survivor guilt a defining feature of the "survivor syndrome." Yet the idea of survivor guilt has always caused trouble, largely because it appears to imply that, by unconsciously identifying with the perpetrator, victims psychically collude with power. In From Guilt to Shame, Ruth Leys has written the first genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the momentous but largely unrecognized significance of guilt's replacement by shame. Ultimately, Leys challenges the theoretical and empirical validity of the shame theory proposed by figures such as Silvan Tomkins, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Giorgio Agamben, demonstrating that while the notion of survivor guilt has depended on an intentionalist framework, shame theorists share a problematic commitment to interpreting the emotions, including shame, in antiintentionalist and materialist terms.
Content:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: From Guilt to Shame -- CHAPTER ONE: Survivor Guilt -- The Slap -- She Demanded to Be Killed Herself and Bitten to Death -- Identification with the Aggressor -- Survivor Guilt -- The Dead -- CHAPTER TWO: Dismantling Survivor Guilt -- "Radical Nakedness" -- The Survivor as Witness -- Dramaturgies of the Self -- The Subject of Imitation -- Psychoanalytic Revisions -- CHAPTER THREE: Image and Trauma -- Imagery and PTSD -- Miscellaneous Symptoms -- Stress Films -- PTSD and Shame -- CHAPTER FOUR: Shame Now -- Shame's Revival -- Shame and Specularity -- Shame and the Self -- Autotelism -- The Evidence -- Objectless Emotions -- The Primacy of Personal Differences -- Posthistoricism -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Shame of Auschwitz -- The Gray Zone -- "That Match Is Never Over" -- The Matter of Testimony -- Shame -- The Flush -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691143323
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780691143323
Language:
English
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