Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader Contributor(s): Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822316943 ISBN-13: 9780822316947 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1995 Annotation: "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. "Shame and Its Sisters" 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 ""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" |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Emotions - Psychology | Movements - Behaviorism |
Dewey: 152.4 |
LCCN: 95016776 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.11" W x 9.29" (1.03 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. Silvan Tomkins (1911-1991) was one of the most radical and imaginative psychologists of the twentieth century. In Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, 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 Shame and Its Sisters, editors Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank make available for the first time an engaging and accessible selection of Tomkins's work. |