From guilt to shame : Auschwitz and after

From guilt to shame : Auschwitz and after /

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 fea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leys, Ruth
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Series:20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
Subjects:
1939-1945
Guilt.
Shame.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects.
Holocaust survivors > Psychology.
Nazi concentration camps.
Guilt
Shame
Concentration Camps
Holocaust > psychology
Jews > psychology
Survivors > psychology
guilt.
concentration camps.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Holocaust survivors > Psychology
Psychological aspects
Schuldgevoel.
Slachtoffers.
Holocaust.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: from guilt to shame
  • Survivor Guilt
  • The slap
  • She demanded to be killed herself and bitten to death
  • Identification with the aggressor
  • Survivor guilt
  • The dead
  • Dismantling Survivor Guilt
  • "Radical nakedness"
  • The survivor as witness
  • Dramaturgies of the self
  • The subject of imitation
  • Psychoanalytic revisions
  • Image and Trama
  • Imagery and PTSD
  • Miscellaneous symptoms
  • Stress films
  • PTSD and shame
  • Shame Now
  • Shame's revival
  • Shame and specularity
  • Shame and the self
  • Autotelism
  • The evidence
  • Objectless emotions
  • The primacy of personal differences
  • Posthistoricism
  • The Shame of Auschwitz
  • The gray zone
  • "That match is never over"
  • The matter of testimony
  • Shame
  • The flush
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix.

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