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‘Conscience and the Forms of Self-Castigation’, by Paul Strohm

Thursday 29th March, 2012

1pm, Arts 2

Although not itself an emotion, conscience’s voice of self-castigation provokes varieties of emotional response. More specifically, it issues in guilt and shame–two responses which Paul understands either to be emotions or at least to possess strong emotional content. In these informal remarks, he proposed a relationship between conscience’s own mediatory position between the self and the world, and its resulting alliance either with guilt or shame. He illustrated his points with brief references to Augustine, Calvin, Nietzsche, and Freud. Presented by Professor Paul Strohm, Columbia University NYC.

See also: Paul Strohm’s post on the History of Emotions Blog based on this talk.