For Zygmunt Krasiński feeling of shame symbolizes an initiation of a sense of one’s identity, a flash of self-knowledge of a man, who creates his human and individual identity via continuous self-creation by free act. Self-perception in shame is an emotion – both a feeling and a thought, that evokes self-representation and memory of one’s self, which are central to a sense of identity. This self-knowledge of becoming in time is both a subject and an object of the thought.
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