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<blockquote>The age of [[childhood]], in which the [[sense]] of shame is unknown, seems a paradise when we look back upon it later, and paradise itself is [[nothing]] but the mass-[[phantasy]] of the childhood of the [[individual]]. This is why in paradise men are naked and unashamed,. until the [[moment]] arrives when shame and [[fear]] awaken; [[expulsion]] follows, and [[sexual]] [[life]] and [[cultural]] [[development]] begin. Into this paradise [[dreams]] can take us back every night; we have already ventured the conjecture that the impressions of our earliest childhood (from the prehistoric period until [[about]] the end of the [[third]] year) crave reproduction for their own sake, perhaps without further reference to their [[content]], so that their [[repetition]] is a [[wish]]-fulfilment. Dreams of nakedness, then, are ''exhibition-dreams''.<ref>{{IoD}} Ch. 5</ref></blockquote> {{Freudian Dictionary}}   ==Below==   The [[word]] shame encompasses: 1) the raw [[emotion]] linked to a [[loss]] of one's bearings; 2) judgment about this [[state]] (the [[perception]] of shame as such resulting from the comparison of oneself with a [[model]]); and 3) judgment about both this emotion and the possible causes of shame (implying possibilities for [[action]]). In all cases, shame is a sense of [[anxiety]] about [[being]] excluded, that is, not only fear of a [[withdrawal]] of [[love]], but even withdrawal of any [[form]] of interest. In "[[Three]] Essays on the [[Theory]] of [[Sexuality]]" (1905), Sigmund [[Freud]] linked shame to the action of the forces of [[repression]] (what was initially an [[object]] of [[pleasure]] becomes an object of modesty, disgust, or shame). By contrast, in "La honte comme [[angoisse]] sociale" (Shame as a [[Social]] Anxiety; 1929), Imre Hermann described shame as a "social anxiety" linked to attachment. Shame always has two aspects: one relating to individual [[mental]] functioning (anxiety about mental disintegration), and the [[other]] relating to relations with the group (anxiety about being excluded). Pathological shame is to be distinguished from shame as a [[signal]] of alarm. [[Coping]] with shame involves both naming it and reinforcing the secondary [[processes]] to [[limit]] its disintegrative effects. It can be [[displaced]] or masked, especially by resignation, anger, [[guilt]], or [[hate]]. To a certain extent, shame was a "blind spot" for Freud and, in his wake, for many [[psychoanalysts ]] who reduced it to a pathological [[affect ]] linked to the [[ideal ]] ego and opposed to the guilt associated with the [[oedipal ]] [[superego]]. However, it is a [[concept ]] that is essential to the [[understanding ]] of the dynamics of social bonds (it protects [[people ]] from engaging in nonhuman actions) and [[intergenerational ]] secrets.

# [[Freud, Sigmund]]. (1905). Three essays on the theory of sexuality. SE, 7: 123-243.