Shaming as a Key Factor in the Process of Personality Disintegration

Abstract

The text interprets shame as a fundamental way of social-moral experience of the world. This moral emotion is then crucial for self-awareness and the constitution of relationships with others. It is in this specific bodily experience of Self and relation to others that the ambiguity of the depersonalised Self opens up.

Keywords

• shamed
• shame
• guilt
• integrity
• living body