Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis

Author(s) : Peter Shabad

Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2024
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 328
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97873
  • ISBN 13 : 9780415703949
  • ISBN 10 : 0415703948

Table of Contents


1. In the Shadow of Death: Freedom and the Passion to Become
2. Planting Seeds of Belonging: Giving of Oneself and Being Received
3. Divided Against Oneself: The Self-Conscious Mind and the Crisis of Shame
4. After The Fact: The Retroactive Transformation of Suffering into Shame
5. Exile And Self-Doubt: The Inversion of Passion into Passivity
6. Licking One’s Own Wounds: Passivity and the Fatalism of Self-Pity
7. Resentment And Entitlement: The Reversal of Giving into Taking
8. From Shame to Group Pride: Normality and the Construction of Human Hierarchies
9. The Nobility of Resistance: Transforming Resentment into Active Rebellion
10. The Dignity of Freedom: Countertransference and the Importance of Respect
11. Letting Go and Holding On: Mourning and The Paradoxes of Emotional Life

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