<p>The book is <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5535599M/Guilt_and_sin_in_traditional_China." rel="nofollow noreferrer">available free online in Open Library</a> and the Wolfram Eberhard reference seems to refer to</p>
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<p>Helen Lynd, <em>On Shame and the Search for Identity&quot;</em> (New York, 1961), p. 207</p>
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<p>The 1961 copy is not on Open Library, but <a href="https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6245428M/On_shame_and_the_search_for_identity." rel="nofollow noreferrer">there is a 1st edition copy from 1958</a>.  <strong>Please read from the bottom paragraph on page 207</strong>.</p>
<p>Among others, the book points out that guilt involves</p>
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<p>exposure of a misdemeanour, with emphasis to whom exposed; exposure to something that should be hidden in a closet.</p>
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<p>The book then compares it to Erik Erikson’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development" rel="nofollow noreferrer">8 life stages of man</a>, originally put together in 1950 in his book <em>Childhood and Society</em>, which I covered in <a href="https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/17211/7604">an answer to another question about child development</a>.</p>

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<p>Can you please expound the sentence that I marked with red lines? The green underlie refers to Wolfram Eberhard's <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/guilt-and-sin-in-traditional-china/oclc/376374" rel="nofollow noreferrer">1967 book <em>Guilt and Sin in Traditional China</em></a>, page 12. But my library is closed because of COVID.</p>
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<p>Axel Schuessler, <em>ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese</em> (2007), p 188.</p>

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Why do psychologists tend to associate guilt with auditory admonition?
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# Why do psychologists tend to associate guilt with auditory admonition?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-12-05)

Can you please expound the sentence that I marked with red lines? The green underlie refers to Wolfram Eberhard's [1967 book *Guilt and Sin in Traditional China*](https://www.worldcat.org/title/guilt-and-sin-in-traditional-china/oclc/376374), page 12. But my library is closed because of COVID.

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Axel Schuessler, *ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese* (2007), p 188.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-12-06. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

The book is [available free online in Open Library](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5535599M/Guilt_and_sin_in_traditional_China.) and the Wolfram Eberhard reference seems to refer to

> Helen Lynd, *On Shame and the Search for Identity"* (New York, 1961), p. 207

[![page clipping](https://i.sstatic.net/6oGEC.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/6oGEC.jpg)

The 1961 copy is not on Open Library, but [there is a 1st edition copy from 1958](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6245428M/On_shame_and_the_search_for_identity.). **Please read from the bottom paragraph on page 207**.

Among others, the book points out that guilt involves

> exposure of a misdemeanour, with emphasis to whom exposed; exposure to something that should be hidden in a closet.

The book then compares it to Erik Erikson’s [8 life stages of man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erikson%27s_stages_of_psychosocial_development), originally put together in 1950 in his book *Childhood and Society*, which I covered in [an answer to another question about child development](https://psychology.stackexchange.com/a/17211/7604).


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