Shame and its sisters : a Silvan Tomkins reader / edited by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank ; with a biographical sketch by Irving E. Alexander.

Contents Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank -- 1. What Are Affects? -- 2. Interest-Excitement -- 3. Enjoyment-Joy -- 4. Surprise-Startle -- 5. Distress-Anguish -- 6. Shame-Humiliation and Contempt-Disgust -- 7. Script Theory and Nuclear Scripts -- 8. Anger -- 9. Fear-Terror -- 10. Perception: The Body Image and Phantom Limbs -- Silvan S. Tomkins: A Biographical Sketch / Irving E. Alexander.
Abstract The question of affect is central to critical theory, psychology, politics, and the entire range of the humanities; but no discipline, including psychoanalysis, has offered a theory of affect that would be rich enough to account for the delicacy and power, the evanescence and durability, the bodily rootedness and the cultural variability of human emotion.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Shame and its sisters. Durham : Duke University Press, 1995
LCCN 95016776
ISBN082231682X (cl. ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780822316824 (cl. ; alk. paper)
ISBN0822316943 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780822316947 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

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