Affect Imagery Consciousness: The Complete Edition

Book One: Volume I: The Positive Affects and Volume II: The Negative Affects

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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...brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of BlinkThe 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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Utgivningsdatum2008-02-15
Mått178 x 254 x 38 mm
Vikt1 021 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor588
FörlagSpringer Publishing Co Inc
ISBN9780826144041

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Prologue by, Donald L. Nathanson, MDVOLUME I—THE POSITIVE AFFECTSDedicationPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Consciousness and Affect in Behaviorismand PsychoanalysisDrive–Affect Interactions: Motivational Information of Time and Placeof Response—When, Where, What, to WhatAmplification, Attenuation and AffectsFreedom of the Will and the Structure of the Affect System Evolution and AffectVisibility and Invisibility of the Affect SystemThe Primary Site of the Affects: The Face The Innate Determinants of AffectAffect DynamicsInterest–ExcitementEnjoyment–Joy and the Smiling Response: Developmental,Physiological and Comparative AspectsThe Dynamics of Enjoyment–Joy: The Social BondSurprise–Startle: The Resetting AffectVOLUME II—THE NEGATIVE AFFECTSDedication Acknowledgments Distress–Anguish and the Crying Response Distress–Anguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of theSocialization of Crying Shame–Humiliation Versus Contempt–Disgust: The Natureof the Response Shame–Humiliation and the Taboo on Looking The Sources of Shame–Humiliation, Contempt–Disgust andSelf-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 theParanoid Posture and Paranoid Schizophrenia Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:Some Specific Examples of the Paranoid Posture References—Volumes I and IIAuthor Index I-1Subject Index I-6