Shame, Temporality and Social Change covers themes including racism, cultural norms, memory and vulnerability, with examinations of shame at its core. It explores the meaning and significance of shame in a world of social media, autocratic leaders and algorithms, and what we can learn from myth as we progress.
A diverse set of contributors, from backgrounds in psychoanalysis, philosophy, anthropology and cultural studies.
Covers topics including loss of hope and confidence, international political and social turbulence, technological change, climate change, and the stresses of late stage capitalism.
The only book to explore the relationship between social turbulence, shame, and temporality.
A powerful, unflinching and deep look from multiple vertices into our contemporary collective descent, epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism in societies makes Ominous Transitions a strong, psychoactive read. The editors have brought forward the wisdom of an impressive coterie of authors who can address the tenuousness of hope for a better future together with reflective awareness of the spur of shame in the service of social justice. This volume can serve as a much needed guide for the troubled times we are traversing in this archetypal moment in global history.
- Joseph Cambray, President/CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Both timely and timeless, Ominous Transitions probes the darker aspects of the passageways from one fraught state of being to the next. Widely varying phenomena are addressed, from an everyday psychoanalytic session in turbulent times, to random, uncanny personal encounters on the street, to societal malaise and breakdown, to genocide. The essays offer clarifying and insightful explications of these experiences, drawing from such luminaries as Derrida, Lacan, Bion, Winnicott, Levinas, and Stiegler. Editors Hinton and Willemsen have given us an invaluable aid in understanding and withstanding the massive upheavals of the present day.
- Margaret Crastnopol (Peggy), Ph.D. is a Seattle-based psychoanalyst and the author of Micro-trauma:A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury, who writes and speaks on micro-trauma as well as on character and selfhood, the analyst's Achilles' heels, and grappling with obstacles to psychic growth.
Hinton and Willemsen's welcome follow-up to their award-winning Shame and Temporality is another collection of essays put together by these two expert editors whose latest volume brings to mind Schopenhauer's insight that the world could be regarded as a giant penitentiary. Ominous Transitions is a book for those who crave something more than utopian resolutions. Instead, the pages of this extraordinarily thought provoking book are emblazened with foundational ideas from original thinkers such as Derrida's differance, Heidegger's thrownness, Giegerich's (and others') noetics, Lacan's hontologie, Nietzsche's simplified nihilism, and Stiegler's neganthropocene. It is an exciting read and is highly recommended.
- Ann Casement, LP, FRAI, FRSM, Professor, Oriental Academy of Analytical Psychology.
'A powerful, unflinching and deep look from multiple vertices into our contemporary collective descent, epitomized by the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism in societies makes Shame, Temporality and Social Change a strong, psychoactive read. The editors have brought forward the wisdom of an impressive coterie of authors who can address the tenuousness of hope for a better future together with reflective awareness of the spur of shame in the service of social justice. This volume can serve as a much needed guide for the troubled times we are traversing in this archetypal moment in global history.'
- Joseph Cambray, President/CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute
Both timely and timeless, Shame, Temporality and Social Change probes the darker aspects of the passageways from one fraught state of being to the next. Widely varying phenomena are addressed, from an everyday psychoanalytic session in turbulent times, to random, uncanny personal encounters on the street, to societal malaise and breakdown, to genocide. The essays offer clarifying and insightful explications of these experiences, drawing from such luminaries as Derrida, Lacan, Bion, Winnicott, Levinas, and Stiegler. Editors Hinton and Willemsen have given us an invaluable aid in understanding and withstanding the massive upheavals of the present day.'
- Margaret Crastnopol (Peggy), Ph.D. is a Seattle-based psychoanalyst and the author of Micro-trauma:A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Cumulative Psychic Injury, who writes and speaks on micro-trauma as well as on character and selfhood, the analyst's Achilles' heels, and grappling with obstacles to psychic growth
'Hinton and Willemsen's welcome follow-up to their award-winning Shame and Temporality is another collection of essays put together by these two expert editors whose latest volume brings to mind Schopenhauer's insight that the world could be regarded as a giant penitentiary. Shame, Temporality and Social Change is a book for those who crave something more than utopian resolutions. Instead, the pages of this extraordinarily thought-provoking book are emblazened with foundational ideas from original thinkers such as Derrida's differance, Heidegger's thrownness, Giegerich's (and others') noetics, Lacan's hontologie, Nietzsche's simplified nihilism, and Stiegler's neganthropocene. It is an exciting read and is highly recommended.'
- Ann Casement, LP, FRAI, FRSM, Professor, Oriental Academy of Analytical Psychology
Ladson Hinton, MA, MD, is a psychoanalyst who lives, practices and teaches in Seattle. He is a founding member of the New School for Analytical Psychology. The volume Temporality and Shame: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Philosophy, co-edited with Hessel Willemsen, won the prize of the American Board & Academy of Psychology and Psychoanalysis for books published in 2018.
Hessel Willemsen, DClinPsych, is a training and supervising analyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology in London and a member of the New School of Analytical Psychology. He lives, practises and teaches in central London.
1. Man and Machine: Dilemmas of the Human. 2. On Caesura, Temporality and Ego-Destructive Shame: Ominous Transitions in Everyday Life. 3. Protecting our Humanity in the Midst of Tribal Warfare: Thoughts for our Time. 4. From Leper-Thing to Another Side of Care: A Reading of Lacan's Logical Collectivity. 5. Hontologie: Lacan, Shame and the Advent of the Subject. 6. Nihilism and Truth: Tarrying with the Negative. 7. Towards a Metacosmics of Shame. 8. Hineni, Hineni: Answering to Other through Disaster and Exile, Shame and Temporality. 9. What Lies Beneath: Shame, Time and Diachrony.