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Shame and its sisters

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Irving E. Alexander

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The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that would be rich enough to account for the delicacy and power, the evanescence and durability, the bodily rootedness and the cultural variability of human emotion.

ShameAffect (Psychology)Psychology & psychiatryEmotionsAffect
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