Introduction: The role of shame in psychoanalytic theory and practice |
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| Authors: | Heinz Weiss |
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| Institution: | 1. Abteilung für Psychosomatische Medizin, Robert‐Bosch‐Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany;2. Sigmund‐Freud‐Institut, Frankfurt a.M |
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| Abstract: | Introducing three papers by Leon Wurmser, Claude Janin and John Steiner the author gives an overview of the development of the concept of shame in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Different aspects of the phenomenon of shame are being discussed including its relation to guilt, object relations and identity as well as the role of gaze when emerging from a psychic retreat. |
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| Keywords: | shame guilt identity object relations psychic retreats |
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