Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach
Authors: Yates, C. and Macrury, I.
Pages: 245-265
ISBN: 9783031055690
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05570-6_13
Abstract:Home Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame/Violence Theory Chapter Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach Candida Yates & Iain MacRury Chapter First Online: 24 August 2022 197 Accesses 3 Altmetric Abstract This chapter explores data emerging from a series of reflective psychosocial group-based explorations of emotional experiences of “Leavers” and “Remainers” that were held in an English coastal town following the result of the Brexit referendum in 2016. We propose that the group method deployed in that project enabled an intimate insight into underlying structures of feeling constituting psychosocial and political life in the UK from 2016–2018. Specifically, the work of the groups highlights powerful psychosocial dynamics related to a lack of emotional containment including prevalent expressions of “shame” as theorised by James (Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on a national epidemic, Vintage Books, 1996; Gilligan, Violence: Reflections on our deadliest epidemic, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999; Gilligan, Social Research: An International Quarterly 70:1149–1180, 2003). We draw on these conceptualisations, and complementary psychoanalytic and cultural-philosophical accounts of shame and guilt (Akhtar, Shame, Routledge, 2018; Benedict, 1946) further support our analytic approach. The chapter examines the ramifications of the winner/loser outcome structured into the referendum-as-political mechanism, one at risk of becoming firmly instituted in post-Brexit politics.
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Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach
Authors: Yates, C. and MacRury, I.
Editors: Gerodimos, R.
Publisher: Palgrave
Place of Publication: London/ New York
Abstract:This chapter explores data emerging from a series of reflective psychosocial group-based explorations of emotional experiences of 'Leavers' and ‘Remainers' that were held in an English coastal town following the result of the Brexit referendum in 2016. We propose that the group method deployed in that project enabled an intimate insight into underlying structures of feeling constituting psychosocial and political life in the UK 2016-2018. Specifically, the work of the groups highlights powerful psychosocial dynamics related to a lack of emotional containment including prevalent expressions of 'shame' as theorised by James Gilligan (1996; 1999; 2003).We draw on these conceptualisations, and complementary psychoanalytic and cultural-philosophical accounts of shame and guilt (Akhtar, 2018; Benedict, 1946) further support our analytic approach. The chapter examines the ramifications of the winner/loser outcome structured into the referendum-as-political mechanism, one at risk of becoming firmly instituted in post-Brexit politics.
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