ABSTRACT
The birth of the individual is the birth of shame. Shame is also used by cultural frameworks to mould the individual into a certain kind of human being standardised, normalised and knowing his limitations. Meanwhile, shame is a framing device designed to limit the trickster's sphere of influence. The starting point of many mythological tricksters, as we remember, is the blissful state of being at one with the world, a state in which there is no place for shame. Abstract systems such as health and safety regulations provide rational and logical frameworks for controlling the trickster. Mario Jacoby quotes the detective writer George Simenon talking about the correlation between shame and mirroring. Mirroring is the background of all human development. The child's personality is created by mirroring and adjacent transitional objects. It is also created by the dynamic between absence and presence of transitional objects.
