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In an interview, the sociologist and clinician V. de Gaulejac and psychoanalyst S. Tisseron, both researchers and practitioners working as precursors in their works on the question of shame in France, evoke what brought them to work on this issue, the main lessons they have drawn from it and finally the way they each now think, in their own ways, about the question. Shame, that can come under a number of facets produces multiple resonances or “ricochets .” Both authors insist on the importance of the special attitude they adopt (sociologist and clinician and psychoanalyst respectively) and even the views of others within groups; for the latter can help defuse the affective charge and open things out towards a better understanding of the emotions at play. In a world that has refocused on performance and the individual, shame imposes work on the problematic of the subject in its various links towards a sense of belonging.