Investigates the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society.
In Disappearing Persons, psychoanalyst Benjamin Kilborne looks at how we control appearance as an attempt to manage or take charge of our feelings. Arguing that the psychology of appearance has not been adequately explored, Kilborne deftly weaves together examples from literature and his own clinical practice to establish shame and appearance as central fears in both literature and life, and describes how shame about appearance can generate not only the wish to disappear but also the fear of disappearing. A hybrid of applied literature and psychoanalysis, Disappearing Persons helps us to understand the roots of the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society.
| ISBN: | 9780791452004 |
| Publication date: | 6th December 2001 |
| Author: | Benjamin Kilborne |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 204 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture |
| Genres: |
Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Abnormal psychology Literature: history and criticism |
Investigates the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society.
In Disappearing Persons, psychoanalyst Benjamin Kilborne looks at how we control appearance as an attempt to manage or take charge of our feelings. Arguing that the psychology of appearance has not been adequately explored, Kilborne deftly weaves together examples from literature and his own clinical practice to establish shame and appearance as central fears in both literature and life, and describes how shame about appearance can generate not only the wish to disappear but also the fear of disappearing. A hybrid of applied literature and psychoanalysis, Disappearing Persons helps us to understand the roots of the psychocultural crisis confronting our increasingly appearance-oriented, shame-driven society.
Disappearing Persons features in the following genres: Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Abnormal psychology, Literature: history and criticism
Disappearing Persons is available in Hardback, Paperback
Disappearing Persons was written by Benjamin Kilborne and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Disappearing Persons has 204 pages
Yes it is part of SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture series