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.
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)..
About the Author: At the time of her death in 2009, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center.
Alexander, Tomkins\'s longtime friend and collaborator.
The text is also accompanied by a biographical sketch of Tomkins by noted psychologist Irving E.
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.
Featuring 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.
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.
The implications of his conceptually daring and phenomenologically suggestive theory are only now--in the context of postmodernism--beginning to be understood.
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.
Silvan Tomkins (1911-1991) was one of the most radical and imaginative psychologists of the twentieth century.
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
