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What are the positive qualities of shame? Starting from the notion of affect and how the subject accedes to it, along with certain disparate examples that shame encounters, I will attempt to establish the implication of the body as the surface of its emergence. In the passage it makes, from the intimate to a scene exposed to the gaze, an extimity that produces its haste on the body, the question of shame tightens in knowing how it is reflected as regards the drive circuit, how it hooks on. I will examine a case of erythrophobia, presented at the “Wednesday Society”, which gave rise to a discussion among the first psychoanalysts, during which Freud pointed out the implications of rage. Finally, whereas Lacan imparted to shame the ethical aspect of beginning the celebration of being, I would like to question its virtues, as much for the subject who sees himself covered, as for the analyst in his act. Its teaching nature holds then to the fact that shame brings us to maintain as a direction of the cure the “rolling” of discourse. To answer at this crucial moment of shame would perhaps be to show a form of tact closest to the style of the analyst.