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From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After
Ruth Leys
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Description for From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After
Paperback. Why has shame displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West? This book presents a genealogical-critical study of the vicissitudes of the concept of survivor guilt and the significance of guilt's replacement by shame. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBTZ1; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 294.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
20/21
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691143323
SKU
V9780691143323
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About Ruth Leys
Ruth Leys is director of the Humanities Center and Henry Wiesenfeld Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Her books include "Trauma: A Genealogy".
Reviews for From Guilt to Shame: Auschwitz and After
"Ruth Leys's new book is a brilliant interdisciplinary investigation of a striking cultural transformation. From Guilt to Shame is original, with a compelling subject treated in a way that places it on the cutting edge of recent science and cultural studies."—Toril Moi, Duke University "From Guilt to Shame is original and incisive, and Leys's exposition of her provocative thesis is ... Read more