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Two Notions of Shame
Author(s) -
Berkovski Y. Sandy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
ratio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-9329
pISSN - 0034-0006
DOI - 10.1111/rati.12051
Subject(s) - shame , agency (philosophy) , psychology , social psychology , presentation (obstetrics) , epistemology , philosophy , medicine , radiology
On most accounts present in the literature, the complex experience of shame has the injury to self‐esteem as its main component. A rival view, originally propounded by S t A ugustine, relates shame to the structure of human agency, and more specifically, to the conflict between will and desire. A recent version of this view developed by D avid V elleman relates shame to the capacity of self‐presentation and the need for privacy. I examine two different interpretations of V elleman's theory and argue that neither suggests a credible alternative to the received view.