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Shame-Humiliation and the Taboo on Looking
Mon, Oct 27
|Zoom
Monthly Reading Group October 2025
Time & Location
Oct 27, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Zoom
Guests
About the event
In October, we will be discussing:
Tomkins, S. "Shame-Humiliation and the Taboo on Looking" (Vol. 2, Chapter 17: pp. 373-386).
Tomkins, S. "Anger in Affluence and Damage-Repair Scripts" (Vol. 3, Chapter 33: pp. 787-820).
Readings include not only the work of Tomkins (specifically, we are reading through the volumes of his
magnus opus Affect, Imagery, Consciousness) but of other researchers related to Affect Script theory. These
are relatively casual Zoom interactions, but participants are expected to have, at minimum, a mid-level
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