Why do human beings feel shame? What is the cultural dimension of
shame and sexuality? Can theory understand the power of affect? How
is psychoanalysis integral to cultural theory?
The experience of shame is a profound, painful and universal
emotion with lasting effects on many aspects of public life and
human culture. Rooted in childhood experience, linked to sexuality
and the cultural norms which regulate the body and its pleasures,
shame is uniquely human. Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and
Visual Culture explores elements of shame in human psychology and
the cultures of art, film, photography and textiles.
This volume is divided into two distinct sections allowing the
reader to compare and contrast the psychoanalytic and the cultural
writings. Part one, Psychoanalysis, provides a psychoanalytic
approach to shame, using clinical examples to explore the function
of unconscious fantasies, the shame shield in child sexual abuse,
and the puzzling manner in which shame attaches itself to
sexuality. Part two, Visual culture, is illustrated throughout with
textual analysis; contributors explore shame and sexuality in art
history, politics and contemporary visual culture, including the
gendering of shame, shame and abjection, and the relationship
between shame and shamelessness as a strategy of resistance.
Claire Pajaczkowska and Ivan Ward bring together debates within
and between the discourses of psychoanalysis and visual culture,
generating new avenues of enquiry for scholars of culture, theory
and psychoanalysis.
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