Lansky M R
Psychoanal Q. 1996 Oct;65(4):761-86.
This paper explores the vicissitudes of shame and its relation to narcissistic rage and escalation of conflict in Sophocles' Ajax. The plot is set in motion by Ajax's shame over losing the competition with Odysseus for Achilles' armor. His shame leads to narcissistic, rage and propels him to vengeance against the social order. Misidentification, an aspect of narcissistic rage, compounds his disgrace by escalating his shame to suicidal proportions when his madness leaves him. His defenses all fail, and his suicide becomes inevitable. Forces that bind him to the social order lose out to those that make of him a humiliated outcast and drive him to kill himself.
本文探讨了羞耻感的变迁及其与索福克勒斯的《埃阿斯》中自恋式愤怒和冲突升级的关系。情节由埃阿斯因在与奥德修斯争夺阿喀琉斯的盔甲比赛中失利而产生的羞耻感引发。他的羞耻感导致了自恋式愤怒，并促使他向社会秩序复仇。错误认知作为自恋式愤怒的一个方面，在他的疯狂消失后，将他的羞耻感升级到自杀的程度，从而加剧了他的耻辱。他的防御全部失败，自杀变得不可避免。将他与社会秩序联系在一起的力量输给了那些使他成为一个蒙羞的弃儿并驱使他自杀的力量。
