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Mary Wollstonecraft statue reveals our unconscious shame 17 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Shame , No Comments A recently unveiled statue of Mary Wollstonecraft has caused outrage by depicting the pioneering feminist writer naked. The statue depicts a nude woman emerging from an amorphous mound of organic matter. The BBC […]
Jeffrey Epstein – trying to ‘fill the hole’ of the mother wound 24 July 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , News , No Comments In What is the mother wound? I’ve written about the single, multi-faceted wound at the core of all humanity. It’s the cause of our bloodthirsty history—what we […]
Ghislaine Maxwell and the victim/victimizer dynamic 19 July 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Patriarchy , 1 Comment In the early hours of 2 July 2020, Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested at a secluded property in New Hampshire. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations charged the British socialite with several counts relating to […]
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 […]
Newsreader shamed for penis-shaped jacket neckline 31 January 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments Australian Channel Nine newsreader Samantha Heathwood has acquired celebrity status after images of her wearing a jacket with a penis-shaped neckline went viral in early January 2019. The jacket makes Heathwood appear as if […]
Anthony Bourdain – the double-edged sword of judgment 11 June 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , News , No Comments On Friday 8 June 2018 the foodie world reeled to the news that celebrity food author and TV presenter Anthony Bourdain, 61, had committed suicide. I never met Bourdain. I never even […]
Excess, patriarchy and the murder of Stanford White 22 April 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Patriarchy , No Comments The media dubbed it—perhaps for the first time—the ‘crime of the century’. On the night of 25 June 1906, Harry K. Thaw shot architect Stanford White at point-blank range in the rooftop […]
The sexual radicalisation of Lawrence of Arabia 9 March 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Radicalisation , Sexuality , 2 Comments I recently wrote about the influence of unconscious shame upon the personality of perhaps the single most memorable individual to emerge from World War I, T. E. Lawrence, better known as […]
Lawrence of Arabia – a shame-driven hero? 18 February 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Shame , No Comments Shifting Sands, an exhibition at the British Civil War Centre in Newark, examines the perennially fascinating story of T. E. Lawrence—a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia—from multiple perspectives: historical, archaeological and personal. Pursuing clues in […]
American Ugliness – the fall of Kevin Spacey 9 November 2017 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Shame , No Comments I don’t have a single favourite film. But there is a bunch of films, indeterminate in number, that rise above the rest. Wonder Boys, Shakespeare in Love, Apocalypse Now, Chinatown, […]