What is sexual shame? 1 July 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Sexuality , Shame , No Comments In What is unconscious shame? I described how all the feminine aspects of our being—our emotions, our feelings about our body and our sexuality—have been pushed down into our unconscious by several millennia of […]
What is arrested development? 30 June 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Shame , 2 Comments On this site I’ve written extensively about unconscious shame. Here I want to connect shame to arrested development. Arrested development is a colloquial term, popularised by the TV show of the same name, for what is […]
Coronavirus exposes South Korea’s sexual shame 11 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments One of the more curious effects of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak has been to highlight potential sexual indiscretions in South Korea. This conservative Asian nation is highly sensitive to perceived sexual impropriety, i.e. sexual shame. Official […]
Life drawing – seeing the body in another light 15 January 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , No Comments Late in 2018, at a point of crisis, I chose to challenge myself in three ways. I joined a public speaking club, did a 43-metre bungy jump, and contacted Life Drawing […]
The shame layer is impervious to thought 18 July 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment Carl Jung wrote, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Despite this admonition from one of the leading figures of psychoanalysis, and despite the recognition […]
Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man – the ‘ideal man’ is free of shame 2 July 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , History , Shame , 1 Comment Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawing, the Vitruvian Man, has always fascinated me. Drawn around 1490, Da Vinci’s drawing is named after the Roman architect Vetruvius. He not […]
Robert Pirsig and the Shame of the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 5 June 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , 5 Comments I’ve been reading Mark Richardson’s Zen and Now – On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Richardson, a Canadian journalist and motorcyclist, was sufficiently […]
Vanishing point – the shame of existence 23 May 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , 1 Comment I have been writing about shame for a long time. About how patriarchy created societies where everyone was ashamed of the emotional and sexual aspects of their lives because these conflicted with other qualities—strength, intelligence, […]
Unconscious shame is rooted in our survival fears 27 April 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Shame , 1 Comment I have written extensively on this site about unconscious shame in general and sexual shame in particular. In my Are YOU ashamed? toolkit I’ve listed some of the common effects of shame—such […]
Shame is the lock that keeps patriarchy in place 22 February 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , Shame , 1 Comment I have written a lot about shame, and I have written a lot about patriarchy. But never before have I articulated the connection between them so clearly. Shame is the lock […]