Shame and pride : affect, sex, and the birth of the self

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Label

Shame and pride : affect, sex, and the birth of the self

Title remainder

affect, sex, and the birth of the self

Statement of responsibility

Donald L. Nathanson

Creator

• Nathanson, Donald L

Subject

• Affect
• Affect (Psychology)
• Affect (Psychology)
• Honte
• Orgueil et vanité
• Pride and vanity
• Pride and vanity
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Psychologie du soi
• Psychosexual Development
• Psychosexual Development
• Affect
• Scham
• Self Concept
• Self Concept
• Self psychology
• Self psychology
• Sexualität
• Shame
• Shame
• Shame
• Shame
• Stolz
• Schaamte

Language

eng

Summary

This is a revolutionary book about the nature of emotion, about the way emotions are triggered in our private moments, in our relations with others, and by our biology. Drawing on every theme of the modern life sciences, Dr. Nathanson shows how the nine basic affects--interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy, surprise-startle, fear-terror, distress-anguish, anger-rage, dissmell, disgust, and shame-humiliation--not only determine how we feel but shape our very sense of self. For too long there has been a battle between those who explain emotional discomfort on the basis of lived experience and those who blame chemistry. As Dr. Nathanson shows, chemicals and illnesses can affect our mood just as surely as an uncomfortable memory or a stern rebuke. He presents a completely new understanding of all emotion, providing the first link between the exciting affect theory of Silvan Tomkins and the entire world of biology, medicine, psychology, psychotherapy, religion, and the social sciences. Shame is the least understood of the painful emotions, although it affects every phase of life. We have all been made to feel foolish just at the moment we most wanted to appear wonderful; we have all been rebuffed by those we wished to court. Not one of us looks exactly as we might wish. Shame haunts our every dream of love, and influences how we experience ourselves as sexual beings. We react to shame by withdrawing, by making painful alliances with those who humiliate us, by calling attention to what brings us pride, or by attacking whoever has made us feel inferior. The comedian, as Nathanson shows in his discussion of Buddy Hackett, makes us laugh at what we try to keep hidden, transforming shame into acceptance and even pride. This book explains everything that can possibly make us proud or ashamed. All are in this book; nobody who reads it will be quite the same again

Cataloging source

DNLM/DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BF575.S45

LC item number

N375 1992

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

BF 575.S45

NLM item number

N275s 1992