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Shame-Humiliation and the Taboo on Looking

Mon, Oct 27

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Monthly Reading Group October 2025

Time & Location

Oct 27, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

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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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