Diálogo intercultural acerca de la vergüenza y la prohibición de mirar en el inconsciente: Japón, India y Argentina.

The author presents the concepts of shame and humiliation using as a starting point the contributions of an argentine psychoanalyst, Benito López, articulating these with the sphere of looking in its relation to the primal scene. She suggests that infantile pride, stemming from identity confusion, turns into shameful withdrawal when this unconscious phantasmic nakedness is revealed by the look of an Other (a parental subrogate). She considers that looking might suffer a regressive quality, acquiring anal features, carrying out an intrusion into the object by means of the ocular sphincter, in order to take possession of its qualities, as it occurs in intrusive voyeurism. Reversion on the self leads to a narcissistic collapse where humiliation is the negative of the narcissistic megalomania. Following Freud's contributions with regards to self observation and Foucault´s on discipline, looking is examined as an instrument of coercion that has both repressive and disciplining effects. The argentine film The invisible eye is used to illustrate the entanglement of the three terms, looking, shame and surveillance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]