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Shame

The board game Shame explores the mechanisms of the internalization of this emotion. Psychologist Gershen Kaufman states that there are four stages for internalizing shame; this board game let its players experience this process. Internalized shame is an unhealthy self-defence mechanism that leads to low self-esteem and isolation, among other issues.

 

Following the ideas of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, this board game aims to be a program not a phantasy. “There is an essential difference between the psychoanalytic interpretation of the phantasy and the antipsychiatric experimentation of the program. Between the phantasy, an interpretation that must itself be interpreted, and the motor program of experimentation. The Body without Organs is what remains when you take everything away. What you take away is precisely the phantasy, and significances and subjectifications as a whole.” (Deleuze and Guattari, 1988).

 

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July 13, 2013