Guilt
Self-blame tied to a specific act, omission, or moral line crossed.
3 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Guilt sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Guiltfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
essays
Strongly present
Augustine, or How the West Learned to Be Ashamed
The bishop who fused shame, desire, and original sin — and what Latin Christianity overwrote to do it
What Augustine of Hippo actually taught about sex, how his biography and opponents shaped Latin doctrine, and what was lost when the West received him as normative.
32 min read
essays
Centrally about
Shame Across Fifteen Centuries
Augustine's inward tribunal and Bataille's continuity of taboo
A Constellation pairs two corpus passages distant in era and stance while sharing subject pressure — here, shame — without pretending they agree.
8 min read
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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3 tagged passages
- WYW-RC-082From While You Were Out (2023)
The line at the funeral home snaked into the hall and out the door. Holmer, standing next to my mother, worked the room like Johnny Carson, kissing the ladies, hugging the men, and telling his funny stories just quickly…
- SDMC-RC-090From Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (2016)
Several hands went up. None, alas, was Miss Parks’s. She was looking down. Shier than the professor, apparently. I was forced to call on Mr. Trujillo, and then Mr. Peterson. “Okay,” I said. “Now, Mr. Trujillo recorded h…
- SC-RC-005From Shunned (2018)
After a second knock, Hannah looked at me and shrugged her shoulders. I pulled out one of the tracts Ross had given me. The caption read: “Life in a Peaceful New World,” accompanying a picture of a young girl feeding a …