A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory PDF
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SURPRISE — STARTLE INTEREST — EXCITEMENT ENJOYMENT — JOY A SILVAN SHAME — HUMILIATION TOMKINS H andbook DISTRESS — ANGUISH FOUNDATIONS FOR AFFECT THEORY ADAM J. FRANK and ELIZABETH A. WILSON DISGUST FEAR — TERROR ANGER — RAGE DISSMELL A Silvan Tomkins Handbook A SILVAN TOMKINS HANDBOOK Foundations for Affect Theory Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis | London This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org. Copyright 2020 by Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401- 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Frank, Adam J., author. | Wilson, Elizabeth A., author. Title: A Silvan Tomkins handbook : foundations for affect theory / Adam J. Frank, Elizabeth A. Wilson. Description: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins” —Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020020378 (print) | ISBN 978-0-8166-7999-7 (hc) | ISBN 978-0-8166-8000-9 (pb) Subjects: LCSH: Affect (Psychology) | Consciousness. | Personality. | Tomkins, Silvan S. (Silvan Solomon), 1911–1991. Classification: LCC BF175.5.A35 F73 2020 (print) | DDC 152.4—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020020378 FOR EKS CONTENTS Note on Quotations ix Introduction 1 PART I. AFFECT 1. Drives 13 2. The Face 21 3. Evolution 31 4. Freedom 41 5. The Positive 51 6. The Negative 61 Interlude: Tomkins and Spinoza 71 PART II. IMAGERY 7. Images 81 8. Theory, Weak and Strong 91 9. Scenes and Scripts 101 10. Ideology 111 Interlude: Tomkins and Darwin 119 PART III. CONSCIOUSNESS 11. Psychoanalysis at the Harvard Psychological Clinic 129 12. Cybernetics 141 13. The Psychology of Knowledge 151 14. The Minding System 161 Acknowledgments 171 Chronology of Tomkins’s Life and Work 175 Bibliography of Tomkins’s Published Writings 177 References 185 Index 197 NOTE ON QUOTATIONS References in the text to Silvan Tomkins’s four- volume work Affect Imagery Consciousness (New York: Springer, 1962– 92) are given by the letters AIC, and quotations from these volumes are denoted by (volume:page). We quoted from this work extensively to convey a sense of Tomkins’s prose style and thinking habits. In each chapter, we high- lighted in bold phrases or sentences that communicate important ideas. All italics in these quotations are Tomkins’s. ix
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