"You need to understand the feeling and find a way to let it go.
Shame is concealed behind guilt; it lurks behind anger; it can be disguised as despair and depression. As people rarely talk about shame experiences, shame is a difficult emotion to detect, especially as it comes in so many disguises."





"Something we considered unimportant or utilitarian can unexpectedly emerge as a marker of a particular time in our lives, like a piece of music, ambushing us emotionally. In this interaction they are revealed as something more than possessions, with qualities that shape us in return, revealing the porous nature of the boundaries between people and things."






"aim to explore how objects were imbued with and gathered emotional power, and how they generated and normalised emotional practices on the part of individual subjects"

 "the relationships between human emotions and material culture, and offering fresh perspectives on the practices and meanings associated with pre-modern rituals and routines"





Идеализация – механизм защиты и адаптации. Избегая боли и дискомфорта реальности мы идеализируем тот или иной объект. И нам становится легче, ведь если в мире существует что-то, достойное нашего обожания, то жить в этом мире можно.






A way of retelling and reimagining a fragment of a painful past



Places of Pain and Shame
Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'

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