More precisely, the «book of shame.» For shame is as diverse as it is universal. “Shame for oneself, for others, for relatives, for parents, for the environment, for the country, for compatriots … Shame appears as the most universal thing in the world, and yet in the face of shame everyone is alone.”
More precisely, the «book of shame.» For shame is as diverse as it is universal. “Shame for oneself, for others, for relatives, for parents, for the environment, for the country, for compatriots … Shame appears as the most universal thing in the world, and yet in the face of shame everyone is alone.” The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, playing with words, even coined the term hontologie (lit. shameology, or ontology of shame). And another Frenchman, the philologist Jean-Pierre Martin, tried to understand the «gloomy secret» of shame through its presence in literature: in Rousseau, Kafka, Camus, Dostoevsky. After all, writing itself is both exposing yourself and liberating yourself from shame through creativity. The book at the intersection of literary criticism, psychology and philosophy is complex, but touches a nerve. Unless, of course, you share the feelings of the author, who addresses the preface «shameless — with admiration.»
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