Susan Miller, author of two foundational works on shame (The Shame Experience [TAP, 1985/1993pbk]; Shame in Context [TAP, 1996]), now turns to disgust, an intriguing emotion that has received little attention in the professional literature.
Susan Sontag's(1977) work on illness considers the veritable corpus callosum of fibers linking the two spheres of discourse. She explains, for example, that “'blight' (a virtual synonym for slum) is seenasa cancer that spreads ...
Bataille, “The Lugubrious Game.” In Visions of Excess, 28. 20. Bataille, CEuvres completes, vol. 1,253. 21. Cf. Didi-Hubermann, La ressemblace informe ou legal savoir visuel selon Georges Bataille. 22. Bataille, “Formless.
An exploration of the role of psychiatry in emergency room medicine draws on the author's experience of evaluating over two thousand emergency room patients, discussing the most common mental disorders encountered in the ER, as well as ...
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