Psychoanalytic perspectives on gaze, body image, shame, judgment and maternal function : being and belonging / Lía A. Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Lía Angélica, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body image.

Gaze--Psychological aspects.

Gaze.

Shame.

Judgment.

Women--Psychology.

Women.

Physical Description:

xiv, 113 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"Have you ever been praised or criticized about your body or any part of it? With this question, participants of a research study were invited to share their experiences of body judgment. As participants described, the body is a carrier of messages and the source of judgmental experiences. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Gaze, Body Image, Shame, Judgment and Maternal Function: Being and Belonging offers an insightful and engaging psychoanalytical account of experiences of shame and fear of rejection, explained through clinical vignettes and research participants' scripts. Exploring the findings from the individual and social standpoints, as well as the cultural and historical influences, Dr Roth proposes that judgements are experienced as attacks, with the meaning attributed to the criticised body part affecting the sense of self and forming a central point of the participants' identity trauma. Furthermore, that as guilt requires reparative action, shame requires an act of sacrifice to align the individual to the ideal and to preserve the matrix of belonging, thus explaining the participants' use of alienation as a defence. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as scholars of culture and religion. Giving a brief introduction to psychoanalytic concepts, with a full glossary, it will also appeal to the non-psychoanalytic reader, interested in body image and how related perceptions and judgements can affect our own sense of Being and Belonging"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Made out of crystal p. 1

Where do we start? p. 6

2 The body image p. 19

The body image, judgments, and a way of being in the world p. 25

3 We are all Zeligs p. 29

On gaze: who is looking at you when you feel you are being watched? p. 41

4 Branded by shame, taste values p. 46

Appearance p. 46

Judgment p. 52

Value: feeling of mortification p. 56

Redefining the struggle of the fittest p. 57

5 Cracked mirror, branded by shame p. 60

Shame, when our mirror cracks p. 60

6 Does it happen everywhere the same? p. 68

Puritans, old acts never forgotten p. 68

The function of the Virgin Mary and the sadistic superego p. 71

7 Being and belonging p. 81

On being p. 81

Case I: Mrs. Teak p. 84

On belonging p. 86

Case II: Dr. Dillon p. 88

8 Shame, body image, maternal function, and judgment p. 93.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Roth, Lía A, 1967- Psychoanalytic perspectives on gaze, body image, shame, judgment and maternal function

ISBN:

9780367462765

0367462761

9780367462758

0367462753

OCLC:

1128193915