Toward Greater Authenticity: From Shame to Existential Guilt, Anxiety, and Grief

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Notes

¹I have claimed (Stolorow, 2007) that trauma produces an emotional state bearing a close similarity to the central features of Heidegger's description of existential anxiety, and that it does so by shattering the “absolutisms of everyday life” (p. 13) that have sheltered us from finitude—a catastrophic loss of innocence that plunges us into a form of authentic being-toward-death.

²A similar shift can sometimes be observed in the wake of emotional trauma (Stolorow, 2007).