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The Secret Thoughts Of Man Run Over All Things Holy, Alan A. Mackenzie Oct 2008

The Secret Thoughts Of Man Run Over All Things Holy, Alan A. Mackenzie

Alan A MacKENZIE

Addiction to lust is common in many men today. This lust is often rooted in our yearning for emotional intimacy– yet finding ourselves unprepared, unequipped and fearful of that intimacy. Shame pathology results from our wanting relationships and genuine equality and mutuality with women, yet finding ourselves crippled by centuries of male sexism and by our emotional dependencies on the opposite sex. ‘Shame wounding’ continues to fuel this pathology by promoting both compulsivity and a fierce sense of self-loathing. This paper explores ‘shame’ as a concept; and considers some major causes of shame-based addiction. Some sound therapeutic approaches for treatment …


Shame, Attachment And Masculine Lust Addiction, Alan A. Mackenzie Oct 2008

Shame, Attachment And Masculine Lust Addiction, Alan A. Mackenzie

Alan A MacKENZIE

A Hobbsean treatise (literature review) of the role of shame and attachent in masculine lust addiction.


Chapter 12: Torts, Crimes, Sanctions. Witchcraft And Related Issues (The Anthropology Of Compensatory Or Retributive Justice), Wolfgang Fikentscher Jan 2008

Chapter 12: Torts, Crimes, Sanctions. Witchcraft And Related Issues (The Anthropology Of Compensatory Or Retributive Justice), Wolfgang Fikentscher

Wolfgang Fikentscher

Inclusive online updates jan10. Chapter 12 on torts and other wrongdoings will treat, along with the traditionally well researched basic concepts of this field of legtal anthropology (to which only brief attention will be given) a recently again debated alleged contrast between shame and guilt societies, the phenomenon of knowledge as witchcraft, and a short report on the growth and institutionalization of international criminal law. Early cultures do not distinguish between torts and crimes. They speak of wrongdoings. A designation of the person who commits the the tort or crime, is a “perpetrator” who is the defendant in civil and …