{"product_id":"shame-and-its-sisters-a-silvan-tomkins-reader-paperback-softback-9780822316947","title":"Shame and Its Sisters; A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822316947","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShame and Its Sisters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Silvan Tomkins Reader\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Edited by), Adam Frank (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822316947\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 October 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages, 3 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.8 x 15.3 x 1.6 cm, 0.408 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShame and Its Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e will have a major impact on the study of culture in the coming years, and on several fronts. It is a significant contribution to the current rethinking of emotion and affect that promises to explore the limits of Freudian and dialectical models of the self, its pleasures, desires, and projects.\"-W. J. T. Mitchell, Editor, \u003ci\u003eCritical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"A fascinating, timely, and richly ‘awry’ contribution to recent work on problems of agency, affect, and the nature\/culture debate generally. The introduction is superb, exact, and incisive. \u003ci\u003eShame and Its Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e will be of real interest to a wide range of readers in the humanities, including history, literature, psychoanalytic theory, work on the problem of the body and the ‘subject,’ systems theory, and more.\"-Mark Seltzer, Cornell University \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilvan\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTomkins (1911–1991) was one of the most radical and imaginative psychologists of the twentieth century. In \u003ci\u003eAffect, Imagery, Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e, a four-volume work published over the last thirty years of his life, Tomkins developed an ambitious theory of affect steeped in cybernetics and systems theory as well as in psychoanalysis, ethology, and neuroscience. The implications of his conceptually daring and phenomenologically suggestive theory are only now-in the context of postmodernism-beginning to be understood. With \u003ci\u003eShame and Its Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e, editors Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank make available for the first time an engaging and accessible selection of Tomkins’s work. \u003cbr\u003eFeaturing intensive examination of several key affects, particularly shame and anger, this volume contains many of Tomkins’s most haunting, diagnostically incisive, and theoretically challenging discussions. An introductory essay by the editors places Tomkins’s work in the context of postwar information technologies and will prompt a reexamination of some of the underlying assumptions of recent critical work in cultural studies and other areas of the humanities. The text is also accompanied by a biographical sketch of Tomkins by noted psychologist Irving E. Alexander, Tomkins’s longtime friend and collaborator.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eShame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins \/ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank 1\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Text 29\u003cbr\u003e 1 What Are Affects? 33\u003cbr\u003e 2 Interest-Excitement 75\u003cbr\u003e 3 Enjoyment-Joy 81\u003cbr\u003e 4 Surprise-Startle 107\u003cbr\u003e 5 Distress-Anguish 109\u003cbr\u003e 6 Shame-Humiliation and Contempt-Disgust 133\u003cbr\u003e 7 Script Theory and Nuclear Scripts 179\u003cbr\u003e 8 Anger 197\u003cbr\u003e 9 Fear-Terror 235\u003cbr\u003e 10 Perception: The Body Image and Phantom Limbs 241\u003cbr\u003e Silvan S. Tomkins: A Biographical Sketch \/ Irving E. 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