Table of Contents

Pajaczkowska, Ward, Introduction: Shame, Sexuality and Visual Culture. Part I: Psychoanalysis. Mollon, The Inherent Shame of Sexuality. Yorke, A Psychoanalytic Approach to the Understanding of Shame. Rizzuto, Shame in Psychoanalysis: The Function of Unconscious Fantasies. Campbell, The Shame Shield in Child Sexual Abuse. Pines, Shame: What Psychoanalysis Does and Does Not Say. Part II: Visual Culture. Pollock, The Visual Poetics of Shame: A Feminist Reading of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). Pajaczkowska, The Garden of Eden: Sex, Shame and Knowledge. Siopis, Shame in Three Parts at the Freud Museum. Khanna, Fabric, Skin, Honte-ologie. Malik, Shame, Disgust and Idealization in Kara Walker's Gone a Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart (1994). Barnett, Stain. Biernoff, Shame, Disgust and the Historiography of War.

About the Author

Claire Pajaczkowska is Reader in Psychoanalysis and Visual Culture at the School of Arts and Education, Middlesex University, London.

Ivan Ward is Director of Learning at the Freud Museum, London.

Reviews

"…a moving and evocative book…The whole read is aesthetically pleasing…It is exciting and unusual…Every writer in this book…will reward the reader with arrestingly vivid moments, fresh angles on old themes, and new lenses through which to see the hidden… I loved their book. They have utterly accomplished all they sought to do…it will allow readers a deep and thorough grasp of the many dimensions of sexuality and the all-important affective phenomenon of shame." - Rosemary H. Balsam, Journal fo the American Psychoanalytic Association