Affect Imagery Consciousness: The Complete Edition
Book One: Volume I: The Positive Affects and Volume II: The Negative Affects
Published on 15. February 2008
Book
Hardback
588 pages
978-0-8261-4404-1 (ISBN)
Description
...brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Blink
The writings for which this essay is offered as a Prologue consumed him from the mid-1950s through the end of his life in 1991. Knowing it was his "lifework," Tomkins conflated "life" and "work," reifying the superstition that its completion would equal death and refusing to release for publication long-completed material. He knew the risks associated with this obsessive, neurotic behavior, and the results were as bad as predicted. The first two volumes of Affect Imagery Consciousness (AIC) were released in 1962 and 1963, Volume III in 1991 shortly before he succumbed to a particularly virulent strain of small cell lymphoma, and Volume IV a year after his death. This last book contains Tomkins's understanding of neocortical cognition, ideas that are even now exciting, but until this current publication of his work as a single supervolume, almost nobody has read it. The bulk of his audience had died along with the enthusiasm generated by his ideas. Big science is now more a matter of big machines and unifocal discoveries as the basis for pars pro toto reasoning than big ideas based on the assembly and analysis of all that is known. Tomkins ignored nothing from any science past or present that might lead him toward a more certain understanding of the mind. Every idea, every theory deserved attention if only because significant observations can loiter in blind alleys."--From the Prologue by Donald L. Nathanson, MD Volume 1 of Springer's magisterial new two-volume edition of Tomkins's magnum opus comprises The Positive Affects and The Negative Affects."
The writings for which this essay is offered as a Prologue consumed him from the mid-1950s through the end of his life in 1991. Knowing it was his "lifework," Tomkins conflated "life" and "work," reifying the superstition that its completion would equal death and refusing to release for publication long-completed material. He knew the risks associated with this obsessive, neurotic behavior, and the results were as bad as predicted. The first two volumes of Affect Imagery Consciousness (AIC) were released in 1962 and 1963, Volume III in 1991 shortly before he succumbed to a particularly virulent strain of small cell lymphoma, and Volume IV a year after his death. This last book contains Tomkins's understanding of neocortical cognition, ideas that are even now exciting, but until this current publication of his work as a single supervolume, almost nobody has read it. The bulk of his audience had died along with the enthusiasm generated by his ideas. Big science is now more a matter of big machines and unifocal discoveries as the basis for pars pro toto reasoning than big ideas based on the assembly and analysis of all that is known. Tomkins ignored nothing from any science past or present that might lead him toward a more certain understanding of the mind. Every idea, every theory deserved attention if only because significant observations can loiter in blind alleys."--From the Prologue by Donald L. Nathanson, MD Volume 1 of Springer's magisterial new two-volume edition of Tomkins's magnum opus comprises The Positive Affects and The Negative Affects."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
43 figures; 43 Illustrations
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Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
1451 gr
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978-0-8261-4404-1 (9780826144041)
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Person
Silvan S. Tomkins, PhD, (1911-1991) was one of the most influential theorists of 20th-century psychology and is generally considered the founder of modern affective science. From 1947 until his retirement in 1975, Tomkins taught at Princeton University, The CUNY Graduate Center, and Rutgers University.
Content
Prologue by, Donald L. Nathanson, MD
VOLUME I-THE POSITIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Consciousness and Affect in Behaviorism
and Psychoanalysis
Drive-Affect Interactions: Motivational Information of Time and Place
of Response-When, Where, What, to What
Amplification, Attenuation and Affects
Freedom of the Will and the Structure of the Affect System
Evolution and Affect
Visibility and Invisibility of the Affect System
The Primary Site of the Affects: The Face
The Innate Determinants of Affect
Affect Dynamics
Interest-Excitement
Enjoyment-Joy and the Smiling Response: Developmental,
Physiological and Comparative Aspects
The Dynamics of Enjoyment-Joy: The Social Bond
Surprise-Startle: The Resetting Affect
VOLUME II-THE NEGATIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Distress-Anguish and the Crying Response
Distress-Anguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of the
Socialization of Crying
Shame-Humiliation Versus Contempt-Disgust: The Nature
of the Response
Shame-Humiliation and the Taboo on Looking
The Sources of Shame-Humiliation, Contempt-Disgust and
Self-Contempt-Self-Disgust
The Impact of Humiliation: General Images and Strategies
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
The Intrusion and Iceberg Models
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
The Monopolistic and Snowball Models
The Structure of Monopolistic Humiliation Theory, Including the
Paranoid Posture and Paranoid Schizophrenia
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
Some Specific Examples of the Paranoid Posture
References-Volumes I and II
Author Index I-1
Subject Index I-6
VOLUME I-THE POSITIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Consciousness and Affect in Behaviorism
and Psychoanalysis
Drive-Affect Interactions: Motivational Information of Time and Place
of Response-When, Where, What, to What
Amplification, Attenuation and Affects
Freedom of the Will and the Structure of the Affect System
Evolution and Affect
Visibility and Invisibility of the Affect System
The Primary Site of the Affects: The Face
The Innate Determinants of Affect
Affect Dynamics
Interest-Excitement
Enjoyment-Joy and the Smiling Response: Developmental,
Physiological and Comparative Aspects
The Dynamics of Enjoyment-Joy: The Social Bond
Surprise-Startle: The Resetting Affect
VOLUME II-THE NEGATIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Distress-Anguish and the Crying Response
Distress-Anguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of the
Socialization of Crying
Shame-Humiliation Versus Contempt-Disgust: The Nature
of the Response
Shame-Humiliation and the Taboo on Looking
The Sources of Shame-Humiliation, Contempt-Disgust and
Self-Contempt-Self-Disgust
The Impact of Humiliation: General Images and Strategies
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
The Intrusion and Iceberg Models
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
The Monopolistic and Snowball Models
The Structure of Monopolistic Humiliation Theory, Including the
Paranoid Posture and Paranoid Schizophrenia
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:
Some Specific Examples of the Paranoid Posture
References-Volumes I and II
Author Index I-1
Subject Index I-6