"An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins"--

Contents

Note on Quotations

Introduction

Part I. Affect

1. Drives 

2. The Face

3. Evolution

4. Freedom

5. The Positive

6. The Negative

Interlude: Tomkins and Spinoza

Part II. Imagery

7. Images

8. Theory, Weak and Strong

9. Scenes and Scripts

10. Ideology

Interlude: Tomkins and Darwin

Part III. Consciousness

11. Psychoanalysis at the Harvard Psychological Clinic

12. Cybernetics

13. The Psychology of Knowledge

14. The Minding System

Acknowledgments

Chronology of Tomkins’s Life and Work

Bibliography of Tomkins’s Published Writings

References

Index

Adam J. Frank is professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol and coeditor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader. 

Elizabeth A. Wilson is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University and author of Gut Feminism and Affect and Artificial Intelligence.