RT Article T1 The Gaze of the other: emotion and relation in the Brothers Karamazov JF Church, Communication and Culture VO 2 IS 3 SP 233 OP 248 A1 Bergamino, Federica LA English PB Taylor & Francis YR 2017 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1662693354 AB In this article, we want to show through an analysis of the journeys of certain characters from The Brothers Karamazov how Dostoyevsky helps to reveal what the Author calls the 'moralism of shame,' or an action dominated by the judgement of the other, and which leads to an action that is extraneous to our will and detatched from an authentic relationship with the other, and with reality: at the same time this offers the experience of a different existential possibility to the reader. The study starts from the observation of the emotion of shame as the primary emotion of the main characters of the novel to emphasize the root of this emotion in their relationships with others and the way in which certain relationships within the novel constitute a possible alternative to an existence guided by shame and honour. K1 Dostoevsky K1 Emotion K1 faith & culture K1 Guilt K1 Relation K1 Shame DO 10.1080/23753234.2017.1388145