Monicagate, Shame, and Affect Theory
October 4, 1998 by Donald Nathanson
Filed under Soapbox
Like all of us, I’ve been drawn into the storms raging about the President. Involved here, of course, are what Tomkins calls differing Ideological Scripts as seen in the responses of various political groups, as well as whatever personal scripts are involved in the behavior of the President. Yet it is to another aspect of […]

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