Affect Imagery Consciousness v. 1

"Silvan Tomkins may have been the best face reader there ever was. Tomkins was from Philadelphia, the son of a dentist from Russia. He was short, and slightly thick around the middle, with a wild mane of white hair and huge black plastic-rimmed glasses. He taught psychology at Princeton and Rutgers and was the author of Affect Imagery Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant."

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.

Prologue by, Donald L. Nathanson, MD VOLUME ITHE POSITIVE AFFECTS Dedication Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Consciousness and Affect in Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis DriveAffect Interactions: Motivational Information of Time and Place of ResponseWhen, 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 InterestExcitement EnjoymentJoy and the Smiling Response: Developmental, Physiological and Comparative Aspects The Dynamics of EnjoymentJoy: The Social Bond SurpriseStartle: The Resetting Affect VOLUME IITHE NEGATIVE AFFECTS Dedication Acknowledgments DistressAnguish and the Crying Response DistressAnguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of the Socialization of Crying ShameHumiliation Versus ContemptDisgust: The Nature of the Response ShameHumiliation and the Taboo on Looking The Sources of ShameHumiliation, ContemptDisgust and Self-ContemptSelf-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 ReferencesVolumes I and II Author Index I-1 Subject Index I-6