Disappearing Persons: Shame and AppearanceState University of New York Press, 06/12/2001 - 204 páginas In Disappearing Persons, psychoanalyst Benjamin Kilborne looks at how we control appearance as an attempt to manage or take charge of our feelings. Arguing that the psychology of appearance has not been adequately explored, Kilborne deftly weaves together examples from literature and his own clinical practice to establish shame and appearance as central fears in both literature and life, and describes how shame about appearance can generate not only the wish to disappear but also the fear of disappearing. A hybrid of applied literature and psychoanalysis, Disappearing Persons helps us to understand the roots of the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society. |
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... relation to himself . By conflating as it does psy- chic and physical blindness , the self - inflicted punishment of Oedipus expresses a feeling that he cannot bear imagining himself in the eyes of others , and therefore must blot them ...
... relation to himself . By conflating as it does psy- chic and physical blindness , the self - inflicted punishment of Oedipus expresses a feeling that he cannot bear imagining himself in the eyes of others , and therefore must blot them ...
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... relationship between Oedipal shame and appearance anxiety , oscil- lating in my analysis from individual psychodynamics to cultural phenomena . OEDIPAL SHAME AND THE ORIGINS OF APPEARANCE ANXIETY Oedipus puts out his eyes because he ...
... relationship between Oedipal shame and appearance anxiety , oscil- lating in my analysis from individual psychodynamics to cultural phenomena . OEDIPAL SHAME AND THE ORIGINS OF APPEARANCE ANXIETY Oedipus puts out his eyes because he ...
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... relation to him . This is the infant's way of trying to make the world a safe place . In short , on the basis of innate strivings the infant “ invents ” his mother at the same time as he " invents " himself and the world . Out of the ...
... relation to him . This is the infant's way of trying to make the world a safe place . In short , on the basis of innate strivings the infant “ invents ” his mother at the same time as he " invents " himself and the world . Out of the ...
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... relations and image making , plastic surgery , bodybuilding , cosmetics , television , and all those means on which we rely to appear as we wish , to give ourselves the feeling that we control the way others see us . By con- trolling ...
... relations and image making , plastic surgery , bodybuilding , cosmetics , television , and all those means on which we rely to appear as we wish , to give ourselves the feeling that we control the way others see us . By con- trolling ...
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... relations . SEEING , KNOWING , IMAGE , AND APPEARANCE Reliance upon appearances entails hiding whatever appearances one finds unacceptable , a reaction we associate with shame . Interestingly , the word shame is derived from the Indo ...
... relations . SEEING , KNOWING , IMAGE , AND APPEARANCE Reliance upon appearances entails hiding whatever appearances one finds unacceptable , a reaction we associate with shame . Interestingly , the word shame is derived from the Indo ...
Índice
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Fantasy Anguish and Misconstrual | 25 |
The Heartbreaking Curiosity of the Blind | 33 |
What Do You See Me to | 45 |
Oedipal Shame Spies and Fantasy | 51 |
Shame and Creativity | 59 |
Deceit Denial Honor and the Rules of the Game | 80 |
Satan Shame and the Fragility of the Self | 83 |
He Who Sheds Shame Sheds Himself | 89 |
Of Fig Leaves Real and Imagined | 109 |
Samson Agonistes | 125 |
Index | 181 |
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Adam and Eve Alice analyst appearance anxiety ashamed attempts become blind body image characters Chesnaye child clothes conscious context deceit defense depends describe despair disappear dream ego ideal Ersilia exhibitionism experience express eyes fantasies fantasies of invisibility father fears feel felt Ferenczi film Freud Graham Greene guilt Hegel helplessness hide human humiliation hunger artist Ibid ideal imagine infant internal Jurieu Kierkegaard Kilborne Lady Godiva Late Mattia Pascal lives look loss Ludovico Luigi Pirandello Mattia mirror mother mourning narcissistic Narcissus never notion object Octave Oedipal conflicts Oedipal defeat Oedipal shame one's oneself pain parents patient perception person Philby Pirandello play Ponza psychic Psychoanalytic rage reality recognize relation rely Renoir repression response Sandor Ferenczi scopophilia Secret seen sense shame dynamics social someone Sophocles speaking story struggle superego Susan symbol theme things tion trans trauma unconscious understand wish writes