Affect Imagery Consciousness

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, 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