Shame, Guilt, and the oedipal drama: Developmental considerations concerning morality and the referencing of critical others.

focuses on shame in relation to guilt / both shame and guilt are moral emotions that involve self-consciousness in relation to others / focus on the individual level of experience, but find that shame and guilt involve interpersonal communications and cultural immersions
propose a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective that makes use of developmental research / begin with the phenomenology of shame and guilt, with a focus on shame and with suggestions for distinguishing the 2 moral emotions / discuss the Oedipal drama, because of its posited role in the development of shame and guilt, suggesting that Freud's individual-based view must be supplemented with 2 other views: the interpersonal and the community/cultural / propose a relationship-motivational view of the Oedipus complex, as the child moves from dyadic experiences to larger social referencing configurations and experiences involving both shame and guilt / discuss the moral emotions and the referencing of others beyond the family (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)