Table Of ContentAffect Imagery
Consciousness:
The Complete Edition
BY SILVAN S. TOMKINS
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Affect Imagery
Consciousness:
The Complete Edition
BY SILVAN S. TOMKINS
ProfessorEmeritus
DepartmentofPsychology
LivingstonCollege
RutgersUniversity
Withtheeditorialassistanceof
BERTRAM P. KARON, Ph.D.
Book One:
Volume I
THE POSITIVE AFFECTS
Volume II
THE NEGATIVE AFFECTS
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CONTENTS
BOOKONE
ProloguebyDonaldL.Nathanson,MD
ExecutiveDirector,TheSilvanS.TomkinsInstitute xi
VOLUMEI—THEPOSITIVEAFFECTS
Dedication xxix
Preface xxxi
Acknowledgments xxxv
1 Introduction:ConsciousnessandAffectinBehaviorism
andPsychoanalysis 3
2 Drive–AffectInteractions:MotivationalInformationofTimeandPlace
ofResponse—When,Where,What,toWhat 17
3 Amplification,AttenuationandAffects 49
4 FreedomoftheWillandtheStructureoftheAffectSystem 61
5 EvolutionandAffect 83
6 VisibilityandInvisibilityoftheAffectSystem 95
7 ThePrimarySiteoftheAffects:TheFace 113
8 TheInnateDeterminantsofAffect 135
9 AffectDynamics 151
10 Interest–Excitement 185
v
vi CONTENTS
11 Enjoyment–JoyandtheSmilingResponse:Developmental,
PhysiologicalandComparativeAspects 203
12 TheDynamicsofEnjoyment–Joy:TheSocialBond 219
13 Surprise–Startle:TheResettingAffect 273
VOLUMEII—THENEGATIVEAFFECTS
Dedication iii
Acknowledgments v
14 Distress–AnguishandtheCryingResponse 289
15 Distress–AnguishDynamics:TheAdultConsequencesofthe
SocializationofCrying 313
16 Shame–HumiliationVersusContempt–Disgust:TheNature
oftheResponse 351
17 Shame–HumiliationandtheTabooonLooking 373
18 TheSourcesofShame–Humiliation,Contempt–Disgustand
Self-Contempt–Self-Disgust 387
19 TheImpactofHumiliation:GeneralImagesandStrategies 427
20 ContinuitiesandDiscontinuitiesintheImpactofHumiliation:
TheIntrusionandIcebergModels 449
21 ContinuitiesandDiscontinuitiesintheImpactofHumiliation:
TheMonopolisticandSnowballModels 475
22 TheStructureofMonopolisticHumiliationTheory,Includingthe
ParanoidPostureandParanoidSchizophrenia 513
23 ContinuitiesandDiscontinuitiesintheImpactofHumiliation:
SomeSpecificExamplesoftheParanoidPosture 545
References—VolumesIandII 603
AuthorIndex I-1
SubjectIndex I-6
CONTENTS vii
BOOKTWO
ProloguebyDonaldL.Nathanson,MD
ExecutiveDirector,TheSilvanS.TomkinsInstitute xi
VOLUMEIII—THENEGATIVEAFFECTS:ANGERANDFEAR
Dedication xxix
Biography xxx
Preface xxxi
PartI Modifications,Clarifications,andDevelopments
inAffectTheory
24 AffectasAnalogicAmplification:ModificationsandClarifications
inTheory 619
25 AffectandCognition:“Reasons”asCoincidentalCausesof
AffectEvocation 639
26 AffectandCognition:CognitionasCentralandCausalin
PsychologicalMagnification 663
PartII AngerandFear
27 AngeranditsInnateActivation 687
28 TheMagnificationofAnger 725
29 TheDifferentialMagnificationofAnger 735
30 TheSocializationofAnger 755
31 IdeologyandAnger 763
32 Anger-ManagementandAnger-ControlScripts 779
33 AngerinAffluenceandDamage-RepairScripts 787
34 AngerinDepressiveScripts 821
35 AngerinDisgust-DecontaminationScripts 839
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36 AntitoxicAnger-AvoidanceScripts 857
37 Antitoxic,Anger-DrivenExpressiveandCounteractiveScripts 887
38 Antitoxic,Anger-DrivenPowerandRecastingScripts 909
39 Antitoxic,Anger-DrivenDestructiveScripts 917
40 FearanditsSocialization 931
41 FearMagnificationandFear-BasedScripts 949
Epilogue 975
VOLUMEIV—COGNITION:DUPLICATIONAND
TRANSFORMATIONOFINFORMATION
Dedication iii
Preface v
Acknowledgments ix
42 IntroductiontotheSecondHalfofHumanBeingTheory 979
PartI Cognition
43 Cognition:WhatIsItandWhereIsIt? 989
44 VarietiesofMediaMechanisms:ABottom-UpPerspective 1009
45 VarietiesofInformationGainandScriptFormation:ATop-Down
Perspective 1029
PartII Memory
46 Memory:DefiningCharacteristics 1055
47 TheStorageandRetrievalofImagery:TheNatureofTheseProcesses 1061
48 ThePossibilityandProbabilityofRetrievingStoredInformation 1077
49 ImplicationsforHumanDevelopment:ContinuityandDiscontinuity 1095
50 FactorsGoverningtheActivationofEarlyMemories 1113
CONTENTS ix
PartIII Perception
51 Perception:DefiningCharacteristics—CentralMatchingofImagery 1137
52 TheLowerSenses 1141
53 TheHigherSenses 1161
PartIV OtherCentrallyControlledDuplicatingMechanisms
54 TheCentralAssembly:TheLimitedChannelofConsciousness 1173
55 TheFeedbackMechanism:Consciousness,theImage,andtheMotoric 1197
Epilogue:RateChangeandDimensionalityasFundamentalAxiom 1217
References—VolumesIIIandIV 1219
AuthorIndex I-1
SubjectIndex I-5
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