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KMID : 0385320030140020152
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2003 Volume.14 No. 2 p.152 ~ p.159
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Psychoanalytic Review on Shame
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Hwang Ik-Keun
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Abstract
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The works of various authors on the subject of shame were reviewed in some detail according to their theoretical orientations. Some authors who advocate the defensive function of shame see shame as a disguise or concealment for other significant drives. In that sense it has similar structure to that of symptom. Shame is a reaction formation to conceal prohibited voyeuristic and exhibitionistic drives, where castration anxiety plays a very important motivating role. While the authors understood shame in relation to sexual and specific physical issues pertaining to voyeuristic and exhibitionstic wishes and genital inferiority, they paid little attention to non-sexual and non-physical aspects of self. However, those authors who advocate self experience of shame understand shame not as an accessory phenomena but a central phenomena. They see shame as a serious experience of inferiority relating to a part of self or the whole self. They assert that attention should be paid to the shame experience itself and its various modes of expression. In terms of psychotherapy, however, it is suggested that an attempt should be made to discover the contents of shame experiences and the mode of managing shame as well as the hidden motivations and defensive attitudes.
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KEYWORD
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psychoanalysis, Shame
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