Hidden Shame, Working Through, and the Problem of Forgiveness in the Tempest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8333319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melvin R Lansky (Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1005-1033 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00030651010490031301 |
| OpenAlex | W1979869260 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 13 |
The problem of forgiveness is considered in the light of an examination of The Tempest. The Tempest illustrates Prospero's struggles to forgive those who betrayed him. The forgiving of an intimate's betrayal is considered as an aspect of working through an antecedent state akin to holding a grudge, blaming, or resenting, or a sense of narcissistic injury due to the betrayal. Working through depends on giving up defenses of withdrawal, omnipotent control, and splitting. These defenses are, in essence, defenses against shame that is felt in fantasy to be unbearable. They are deployed through the workings of signal anxiety (signal shame). For that reason, underlying shame dynamics are central, although manifest shame is not evident in the struggle over forgiveness. Identification of the loving aspects of an object that has been controlled and possessed for a sufficient time, and then has been relinquished and mourned, makes this type of forgiveness possible
Art · Betrayal · Computer security · Fantasy · Forgiveness · Hearsay · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Tempest · Computer Science · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Psychology · Social Psychology
Remembering the past
Refusing the cure
The Impossibility of Forgiveness
Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition
Revenge and Forgiveness in Group Psychotherapy
Mourning in the Psychoanalytic Situation and In Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Transcending Bitterness and Early Paternal Loss through Mourning and Forgiveness
England Hath Long Been Mad”
The Wish for Revenge
Forgiveness, acceptance and the matter of expectation
Introduction
Primary shame, mortal wound and tragic circularity
Leaps of faith
Refusing the cure
Grievance
Unbearable Shame, Splitting, and Forgiveness in the Resolution of Vengefulness
Hidden Shame
Psychological Repair
Revenge—the Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name
The Capacity To Forgive
Mea culpa
The interpretation of dreams.
Thoughts on Narcissism and Narcissistic Rage
Bearable and Unbearable Guilt
Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety
Signal Affects and Our Psychoanalytic Confusion of Tongues
From Insight To Change
The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Narcissism and the Ego Ideal
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,87 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2019 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |