Affect Imagery Consciousness

Volume III: The Negative Affects: Anger and Fear and Volume IV: Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

AvSilvan S. Tomkins

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...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 Nathanson, MD Volume 2 of Springer's deluxe new edition of Tomkins's masterpiece includes The Negative Affects: Fear and Anger and Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-02-15
Mått178 x 254 x 38 mm
Vikt1 021 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor644
FörlagSpringer Publishing Co Inc
ISBN9780826144065

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Prologue by Donald L. Nathanson, MDVOLUME III—THE NEGATIVE AFFECTS: ANGER AND FEARDedicationBiographyPrefacePart I: Modifications, Clarifications, and Developments in Affect Theory24. Affect As Analogic Amplification: Modifications and Clarifications in Theory25. Affect and Cognition: “Reasons” As Coincidental Causes of Affect Evocation26. Affect and Cognition: Cognition As Central and Causal in Psychological MagnificationPart II: Anger and Fear27. Anger and Its Innate Activation28. The Magnification of Anger29. The Differential Magnification of Anger30. The Socialization of Anger31. Ideology and Anger32. Anger-Management and Anger-Control Scripts33. Anger in Affluence and Damage-Repair Scripts34. Anger in Depressive Scripts35. Anger in Disgust-Decontamination Scripts36. Antitoxic Anger-Avoidance Scripts37. Antitoxic, Anger-Driven Expressive and Counteractive Scripts38. Antitoxic, Anger-Driven Power and Recasting Scripts39. Antitoxic, Anger-Driven Destructive Scripts40. Fear and Its Socialization41. Fear Magnification and Fear-Based ScriptsEpilogueVOLUME IV—COGNITION: DUPLICATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF INFORMATIONDedicationPrefaceAcknowledgments42. Introduction to the Second Half of Human Being TheoryPart I: Cognition43. Cognition: What Is It and Where Is It?44. Varieties of Media Mechanisms: A Bottom-Up Perspective45. Varieties of Information Gain and Script Formation: A Top-Down PerspectivePart II: Memory46. Memory: Defining Characteristics47. The Storage and Retrieval of Imagery: The Nature of These Processes48. The Possibility and Probability of Retrieving Stored Information49. Implications for Human Development: Continuity and Discontinuity50. Factors Governing the Activation of Early MemoriesPart III: Perception51. Perception: Defining Characteristics—Central Matching of Imagery52. The Lower Senses53. The Higher SensesPart IV: Other Centrally Controlled Duplicating Mechanisms54. The Central Assembly: The Limited Channel of Consciousness55. The Feedback Mechanism: Consciousness, The Image, and the MotoricEpilogue: Rate Change and Dimensionality as Fundamental AxiomReferences—Volumes III and IVAuthor Index I-1Subject Index I-5