Disappearing persons : shame and appearance / Benjamin Kilborne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilborne, Benjamin.

Series:

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Shame.

Conflict (Psychology).

Body image.

Physical Description:

xii, 192 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

Oedipal Shame and the Origins of Appearance Anxiety 3

Appearance Anxiety as a Cultural Phenomenon 5

Appearance Anxiety, Observation, and Perception 5

Seeing, Knowing, Image, and Appearance 6

Oedipus, Shame, and the Void of Avoidance 7

1. The Contempt of the Queen's Dwarf 9

Psychic Size and Self-Regard 9

Asclepius, the Tall Man, and Little People 10

Brobdingnag and Lilliput 13

Large or Small We Are Only By Comparison 14

Literary Littleness and Miniaturization 15

Amplification and Defenses Against Diminishment 16

Size Symbolism and Fantasized Measurement 17

Size Anxiety and Oedipal Shame: Clinical Variants 18

The Shape of Experience and Fantasies of Size 21

2. Fantasy, Anguish, and Misconstrual 25

Pirandello and The Unrecognizable 25

Shame and Oedipal Defeat in the Analysis of Sam 27

The Heartbreaking Curiosity of the Blind 33

3. A Hole in a Paper Sky: Deceit and Remedies by Still More Deceit 37

Shame and Aidos 38

Shame and the Sneeze: the Analysis of Mark 39

Deception, Outrage, and Remedy by Even More Deceit 41

The Vain Invention of the Onlooker 43

4. What Do You See Me to Be? Invisibility and Performance 45

Exposure and Invisibility: Adam 46

Spy Glass Hill and the "Rage of Personality:" Adam, Graham Greene, and Kim Philby 48

Oedipal Shame, Spies and Fantasy 51

Recognizing Choice in the Unseen 52

Of Oedipal Blindness and Oedipal Shame: Loss, Disappearance, and Rage 53

The Hunger Artist 55

Shame and Performance Anxiety: A Shamed Violinist Plays to a Lion 56

Shame and Creativity 59

5. I Can't See; I'm Invisible 61

When I Don't See You I Can Invent You Better: The Analysis of Susan 63

Do You Want Me To Be Someone Else? 65

Peek-a-boo, Disappearance, and the Game of the Bobbin 66

I Am Invisible; I Can't See Myself 68

Seeing, Being Seen, and Matters of Privacy 69

6. What the Camera Sees: The Tragedy of Modern Heroes and "The Rules of the Game" 73

Free Association and Open Form 75

Of Disguises, Mechanisms, and Music Boxes 77

Everyone Has His Reasons 78

Deceit, Denial, Honor, and the Rules of the Game 80

7. Satan, Shame, and the Fragility of the Self 83

Sin's Out and Out's Sin 84

Shame and Sin: The Garden of Eden 85

Shame and Innocence 86

Kierkegaard, Dread, and the Self So Easily Lost 87

Shame, Deception, and Despair 88

He Who Sheds Shame Sheds Himself 89

8. Narcissus and Lady Godiva: Lethal Looks and Oedipal Shame 93

Looking, Narcissus, and Narcissism 94

Freud, Looking, and Psychoanalytic Theories of Narcissism 96

Narcissistic Pain, Looking, and Mirrors 99

Looking and Dreams: Freud's Self-Portrait 101

Dreams of Two Patients: A Painter and a Stripper 104

Looking and the Transference 106

9. Of Fig Leaves, Real and Imagined 109

Fashioning Looks, Shaping Shame 109

Freud and Exhibitionism 110

How Conscious is Fashion-consciousness? 111

Plastic Surgery and Con-Formity 113

Clothe the Naked 114

10. These Weeping Eyes, Those Seeing Tears: Trauma, Mourning, and Oedipal Shame 119

Regression, Shame, and Trauma: Ferenczi and Freud 121

Uncontrollable Ears and the Social-Political Context of Oedipal Shame 122

Appearance and Connivances 124

A Burdenous Drone: Samson Agonistes 125

Shame, Disappearance, and Trauma 126

And a Tear Shall Lead the Blind Man 129.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-179) and index.

ISBN:

0791451992

079145200X

OCLC:

46618660