Shame and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture

by Pajaczkowska; Claire

• ISBN13: 9780415420112
• ISBN10: 0415420113
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-25
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 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 I, 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 II, Visual Culture , is illustratedthroughout 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.

Table of Contents

Pajaczkowska, Ward

Introduction: Shame, Sexuality and Visual Culture

The Inherent Shame of Sexuality Yorke

A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Understanding of Shame Rizzuto , Shame in Psychoanalysis: The Function of Unconscious Fantasies Campbell

The Shame Shield in Child Sexual Abuse Pines , Shame - What Psychoanalysis Does and Does Not Say Pollock

The Visual Poetics of Shame: A Feminist Reading of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Pajaczkowska

The Garden of Eden: Sex Shame and Knowledge: An Essay on the Theory on Infantile Textuality Siopis , Shame in Three Parts at the Freud Museum Khanna , Fabric, Skin, Honte-ologie

Malik , Shame, Disgust and Idealisation in Kara Walker's Gone A Historical Romance of a Civil War As It Occurred Between in Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994) Barnett , Stain Biernoff Shame, Disgust and the Histography of War

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