In others' eyes : an analysis of shame / by Günter Harry Seidler ; translated from the German by Andrew Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seidler, Günter H., 1951-

Standardized Title:

Blick des Anderen. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Shame.

Shame in literature.

Physical Description:

xxix, 383 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, [2000]

Summary:

As Leon Wurmser notes in his Foreword, this challenging and important book advances "an entirely new theory of affect, development, consciousness, relation, and illness." To establish his theory, the author draws on his clinical experience along with a wide range of literature, philosophy, psychology, and mythology from many different cultures.

Contents:

1. Shame and the Experience of Shame from a Phenomenological Perspective 1

A Phenomenological Determination of the "Place" and "Time" of Shame 3

"Thinking Over" and "Remembering" as Distinct Modes of Self-Relation 8

"Consciousness-of," "Self-Consciousness," and Their Relation to Time 11

Phenomenological Features of a Person Experiencing Shame 18

Phenomenology of Outward Features of the Shame Subject 18

Phenomenology of the Shame Experience 24

The Phenomenology of Shame-as-Situation: From "Attunement" to "Dislocation" 37

2. Self and Other: The Gaze between the Philosophy of Consciousness and Corpo-real Reciprocity 47

"Gaze" and Shame in Sartre 49

The "Other" as "Witness of Shame": Examples from Literature 59

The "Objectifying" and the "Subjectifying" Gaze: When the "Witness" Turns Partial 66

Echo, Response, and Responsibility: From External Reflection to the Voice of Conscience 86

"Blinding": Overwhelming Object, Overwhelming Subject, and the Coincidence of Extremes 91

3. The Discussion of Shame in the Literature 99

Modern-Day Theories of Shame 99

Immediate Precursors of the Present-Day Discussion 109

Stages in the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Shame 111

Critical Assessment of the Existing Literature 117

4. The Psychodynamics of Shame: From the Interactional Unconsciousness of the Sexually Distinctive Other to the Internalization of the Primal Scene 123

The Genesis of Shame as a Model of Its Psychodynamics 127

Traditional Psychoanalytic Theories of Anality 128

Recent Findings in Developmental Psychology during the Second Year of Life 132

The Development of Shame and Its Place in the Development of the Affects in Infants 141

The Emergence and Differentiation of Psychic Structures: From External Relations to the Internal Regulation of Relations 154

Is the Ego a Structure? 157

The Structure of Self I: The Modal Aspect 164

The Changing Guise of the Other 181

The Structure of Self II: Personhood 192

What are "Oedipal Structures"? 195

Sexuality, Aggression, Shame, Body: Drive and Knowledge Paradigms 202

Shame-Defense: In Search of Innocence Lost 214

5. The Old Testament Stories of the Creation and the Oedipus Legend: The Struggle to Appropriate the Reflexive Judgment Function 225

Creation, Division, and the Fall as Recounted in the Bible 225

Division Inside and Outside: Sexual Difference and Knowledge 228

In-Sight, Shame, and Guilt in the Oedipus Myth 236

Man-Woman Tiresias and the State of Self-Recognition 241

Tiresias and Oedipus: Immanence and Transcendence of Self-Knowledge, or the Interplay of Question and Answer 245

Sophocles' Oedipus 249

Self-Knowledge, Shame, and Guilt: Suggestions for a Broader Perspective on Oedipality 250

Narcissus, Tiresias, and Oedipus: Three Models of Consciousness 255

6. Shame and Illness 259

Pathologies of Shame and Their Diagnosis 259

Are there Such Things as "Shame Disorders"? 275

Mythologems and Syndromes: Narcissus, Tiresias, Oedipus 286

Destructive Sides of Narcissism and Shame 289

The Unavoidable Shame of Anorexic Women 294

The Need for Complementation as Unconscious Shame in Hysteria 300

7. Therapeutic Implications, Summary, and Outlook 315.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-357) and indexes.

ISBN:

0823625559

OCLC:

42080346