Temporality and Shame

Winner of the 2018 American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) prize for best Edited book

"This remarkable collection of essays explores the intersecting dynamics of shame and temporality. If our ability to construct the narrative arc of time makes us human, shame makes us social beings—forced to reflect on the norms we have breached, and compelled to repair our damaged personhood. Shame arrests us in time, delivering us to a double temporality: morbidly reliving past humiliations and rehearsing future disgrace. While intense shame is corrosive to the self, the contributors show that shame is also a teacher, a moral emotion that contributes to civility, integrity, and depth. Readers will be richly rewarded."-Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC, James McGill Professor & Director, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University

"This unusual conjunction of topics, temporality and shame, proves to be quite remarkable through the editorial synthesis of Willemsen and Hinton. Each chapter explores and develops another dimension of the intersection of these aspects of psychological experience through the reflections of diverse, erudite scholars, analysts and authors. Trauma studies serve as a backdrop to many of the discussion, making poignant human suffering a canvas upon which the themes unfold. As the examinations proceeds essay by essay the emergence of a complex network of association in philosophical space appears constructed by the weaving of analytic threads. A unique collection that deserves rereading to fully savour its subtle richness."-Joseph Cambray, Ph.D., Provost, Pacifica Graduate Institute

"This book’s cross-disciplinary content that includes anthropology, psychoanalysis, technology, culture, the law, [and] philosophy, yields authoritative accounts of emotionally rending and thought-provoking mental and physical depravity and their after-effects in our time. The dynamic structural relations that bind the notions of temporality and shame are at work in both the synchronic eternally present time and the diachronic passage of historical time. This portentous book is essential reading for its depiction of a world wherein the contemporary pervasiveness of shamelessness is uncontained in ethical time and poses an exponential threat to Darwinian fitness."-Ann Casement, Licensed Psychoanalyst/Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

"This fine collection of papers is distinguished by a rare integration of psychoanalytic, philosophical and Jungian perspectives. Its authors include clinicians, scholars and anthropologists and this refreshing combination offers an unusually wide-ranging, thought-provoking and original exploration of shame and its relation to various aspects of temporality."-Warren Colman, Jungian analyst and consultant editor of The Journal of Analytical Psychology.

"Despite the fact that the question of temporality has been a principle focus of much contemporary philosophy, particularly in the Continental tradition if Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, little work has been devoted to exploring the manifold and significant ways in which these two core human experiences intersect and constitute one another. This volume does an admirable job of both seeking to address this lack and encourage further scholarly dialogue and clarification."-The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

Winner of the 2018American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) prize for best Edited book

"This remarkable collection of essays explores the intersecting dynamics of shame and temporality. If our ability to construct the narrative arc of time makes us human, shame makes us social beings—forced to reflect on the norms we have breached, and compelled to repair our damaged personhood. Shame arrests us in time, delivering us to a double temporality: morbidly reliving past humiliations and rehearsing future disgrace. While intense shame is corrosive to the self, the contributors show that shame is also a teacher, a moral emotion that contributes to civility, integrity, and depth. Readers will be richly rewarded."-Laurence J. Kirmayer, MD, FRCPC, FCAHS, FRSC, James McGill Professor & Director, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University

"This unusual conjunction of topics, temporality and shame, proves to be quite remarkable through the editorial synthesis of Willemsen and Hinton. Each chapter explores and develops another dimension of the intersection of these aspects of psychological experience through the reflections of diverse, erudite scholars, analysts and authors. Trauma studies serve as a backdrop to many of the discussion, making poignant human suffering a canvas upon which the themes unfold. As the examinations proceeds essay by essay the emergence of a complex network of association in philosophical space appears constructed by the weaving of analytic threads. A unique collection that deserves rereading to fully savour its subtle richness."-Joseph Cambray, Ph.D., Provost, Pacifica Graduate Institute

"This book’s cross-disciplinary content that includes anthropology, psychoanalysis, technology, culture, the law, [and] philosophy, yields authoritative accounts of emotionally rending and thought-provoking mental and physical depravity and their after-effects in our time. The dynamic structural relations that bind the notions of temporality and shame are at work in both the synchronic eternally present time and the diachronic passage of historical time. This portentous book is essential reading for its depiction of a world wherein the contemporary pervasiveness of shamelessness is uncontained in ethical time and poses an exponential threat to Darwinian fitness."-Ann Casement, Licensed Psychoanalyst/Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

"This fine collection of papers is distinguished by a rare integration of psychoanalytic, philosophical and Jungian perspectives. Its authors include clinicians, scholars and anthropologists and this refreshing combination offers an unusually wide-ranging, thought-provoking and original exploration of shame and its relation to various aspects of temporality."-Warren Colman, Jungian analyst and consultant editor of The Journal of Analytical Psychology.

"Despite the fact that the question of temporality has been a principle focus of much contemporary philosophy, particularly in the Continental tradition if Hermeneutics and Phenomenology, little work has been devoted to exploring the manifold and significant ways in which these two core human experiences intersect and constitute one another. This volume does an admirable job of both seeking to address this lack and encourage further scholarly dialogue and clarification."-The Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology