Table of Contents

Contents: Abortive Shame: Unfinished Mourning – Reflections of Shame: The Broken Mirror – The Return of Shame: Mourning and Obsession – Shame and Collaboration: The Laws of Forgetting – Shame and Resistance: Repression, Repeating, Remembering – From Guilt to Shame and Back.

About the Author

Ruth Kitchen is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Leeds. Her research examines twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature, film, philosophy and cultural history. Her next project will examine the philosophical and educational theories underpinning cultural representations of deafness in Francophone cinema.