{"product_id":"from-guilt-to-shame-auschwitz-and-after-2021-9780691143323","title":"From Guilt to Shame Auschwitz and After 2021","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ruth Leys's new book is a brilliant interdisciplinary investigation of a striking cultural transformation. \u003ci\u003eFrom Guilt to Shame\u003c\/i\u003e is original, with a compelling subject treated in a way that places it on the cutting edge of recent science and cultural studies.\"\u003cb\u003e—Toril Moi, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFrom Guilt to Shame\u003c\/i\u003e is original and incisive, and Leys's exposition of her provocative thesis is thoroughly persuasive. The superb chapter on Giorgio Agamben is the perfect conclusion to this excellent work, which should attract interest from readers of trauma theory, the history of traumatic stress, comparative literature, moral philosophy, and Holocaust studies.\"\u003cb\u003e—Allan Young, McGill University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix      INTRODUCTION: From Guilt to Shame 1      CHAPTER ONE: Survivor Guilt 17  The Slap 17  She Demanded to Be Killed Herself and Bitten to Death 24  Identification with the Aggressor 32  Survivor Guilt 38  The Dead 47      CHAPTER TWO: Dismantling Survivor Guilt 56  \"Radical Nakedness\" 56  The Survivor as Witness 61  Dramaturgies of the Self 68  The Subject of Imitation 76  Psychoanalytic Revisions 83      CHAPTER THREE: Image and Trauma 93  Imagery and PTSD 93  Miscellaneous Symptoms 99  Stress Films 106  PTSD and Shame 118      CHAPTER FOUR: Shame Now 123  Shame's Revival 123  Shame and Specularity 126  Shame and the Self 129  Autotelism 133  The Evidence 137  Objectless Emotions 145  The Primacy of Personal Differences 150  Posthistoricism 154      CHAPTER FIVE: The Shame of Auschwitz 157  The Gray Zone 157  \"That Match Is Never Over\" 162  The Matter of Testimony 165  Shame 170  The Flush 174      Conclusion 180  Appendix 187  Index 193","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403770569047,"sku":"9780691143323","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691143323.jpg?v=1730484493","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-guilt-to-shame-auschwitz-and-after-2021-9780691143323","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}