Blush Probyn Elspeth
Blush Probyn Elspeth With the rise of pride - national pride, gay pride, black pride, fat pride - shame, the sickness of the soul, has acquired a bad reputation. When we blush, we are driven to…
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Blush Probyn Elspeth
With the rise of pride - national pride, gay pride, black pride, fat pride - shame, the sickness of the soul, has acquired a bad reputation. When we blush, we are driven to question what we value about ourselves and why. While the repudiation of some forms and consequences of societal shame are undoubtedly necessary, Elspeth Probyn contends that this emotion is a powerful resource in rethinking who we are and who we want to be.
Painfully introspective, shame demands that we question our actions and our relationship to others. Blush argues that we are all born with a capacity for shame, much as we are born with the capacity for anger or pride, and that shame, like these other emotions, can be good for us and reveal the good in us. Shame's physical manifestation - the blush - gives us away, connecting us to our humanity.
What shames us says a great deal about our character as individuals