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From Guilt to Shame - Auschwitz and After (Paperback)

Ruth Leys

Series: 20/21

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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 feature of the "survivor syndrome." Yet the idea of survivor guilt has always caused trouble, largely because it appears to imply that, by unconsciously identifying with the perpetrator, victims psychically collude with power.

In "From Guilt to Shame," Ruth Leys has written the first genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the momentous but largely unrecognized significance of guilt's replacement by shame. Ultimately, Leys challenges the theoretical and empirical validity of the shame theory proposed by figures such as Silvan Tomkins, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Giorgio Agamben, demonstrating that while the notion of survivor guilt has depended on an intentionalist framework, shame theorists share a problematic commitment to interpreting the emotions, including shame, in antiintentionalist and materialist terms.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: 20/21
Release date: October 2009
First published: 2009
Authors: Ruth Leys
Dimensions: 227 x 146 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14332-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
Books > History > European history > From 1900 > Second World War > The Holocaust
LSN: 0-691-14332-3
Barcode: 9780691143323

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