Shame and Its Sisters - A Silvan Tomkins Reader

"Shame and Its Sisters" 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, "Critical Inquiry"

List of contents

Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank 1

A Note on the Text 29

1 What Are Affects? 33

2 Interest-Excitement 75

3 Enjoyment-Joy 81

4 Surprise-Startle 107

5 Distress-Anguish 109

6 Shame-Humiliation and Contempt-Disgust 133

7 Script Theory and Nuclear Scripts 179

8 Anger 197

9 Fear-Terror 235

10 Perception: The Body Image and Phantom Limbs 241

Silvan S. Tomkins: A Biographical Sketch / Irving E. Alexander 251

Index 265

About the author

At the time of her death in 2009, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Her many publications include A Dialogue On Love (Beacon, 1999); Fat Art/Thin Art (Duke, 1994); Tendencies (Duke, 1993); and Epistemology of the Closet (California, 1990).

Product details

• Assisted by: Adam Frank (Editor), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.1995
• EAN: 9780822316947
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1694-7
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 239 mm x 160 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: 3 illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Behaviorism