Disappearing People: Shame and Appearance
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Disappearing People: Shame and Appearance
29.99 €
The author, with a background in literature, history, anthropology, and clinical psychoanalysis, examines how people, by controlling their appearance, attempt to manage their feelings.
Believing that the psychology of appearance remains underexplored, Kilborne combines examples from literature and her own clinical practice to substantiate the following assertion: shame and appearance are the primary causes of fear, aroused in both literary characters and real people. The author describes how shame about appearance generates not only the desire to disappear, but also the fear of disappearance.
"Vanishing People" is a hybrid of applied literature and applied psychoanalysis. It helps us understand the origins of the psychocultural crisis shaking our appearance-oriented, shame-inducing society.
This publication will be of interest not only to psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis, but also to a wider audience.
Are you interested in this book as a professional study of the psychology of appearance or as literature for self-development?
Believing that the psychology of appearance remains underexplored, Kilborne combines examples from literature and her own clinical practice to substantiate the following assertion: shame and appearance are the primary causes of fear, aroused in both literary characters and real people. The author describes how shame about appearance generates not only the desire to disappear, but also the fear of disappearance.
"Vanishing People" is a hybrid of applied literature and applied psychoanalysis. It helps us understand the origins of the psychocultural crisis shaking our appearance-oriented, shame-inducing society.
This publication will be of interest not only to psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis, but also to a wider audience.
Are you interested in this book as a professional study of the psychology of appearance or as literature for self-development?
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