Shame Temporality and Social Change

<p><strong>Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Edited Book 2021</strong></p><p>There is a broad consensus that we are in a time of profound transition. There is worldwide political and social turbulence, with an underlying loss of hope and confidence about the future. Technological change and the stresses of late-stage capitalism, along with climate change, undermine social trust and hope for a future worth living. Shameless behavior is rampant, undermining respect for habits and institutions that hold societies together. <i>Shame, Temporality and Social Change</i> offers multi-disciplinary insight into these concerns.</p><p>Hinton and Willemsen’s collection covers themes including racism, cultural norms, memory and vulnerability, with examinations of shame at its core. It explores the meaning and significance of shame in a world of social media, autocratic leaders and algorithms and what we can learn from myth as we progress. Increased awareness of the inter-connection of shame and temporality with the ominous transitions of our times provides thought-provoking insights for theory and practice and the ethical decisions of everyday life.</p><p>Psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, philosophers, anthropologists and academics and students engaged in cultural studies and critical theory will gain valuable insights from this book’s rich and engaging variety of perspectives on our times.</p> <p>1. Man and Machine: Dilemmas of the Human. 2. On Caesura, Temporality and Ego-Destructive Shame: Ominous Transitions in Everyday Life. 3. Protecting our Humanity in the Midst of Tribal Warfare: Thoughts for our Time. 4. From Leper-Thing to Another Side of Care: A Reading of Lacan’s Logical Collectivity. 5. <em>Hontologie</em>: Lacan, Shame and the Advent of the Subject. 6. Nihilism and Truth: Tarrying with the Negative. 7. Towards a Metacosmics of Shame. 8. Hineni, Hineni: Answering to Other through Disaster and Exile, Shame and Temporality. 9. What Lies Beneath: Shame, Time and Diachrony.</p>