Affect Imagery Consciousness: Volume I: The Positive Affects

by Silvan S. Tomkins

...brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Blink

The writings for which this essay is offered as a Prologue consumed him from the mid-1950s through the end of his life in 1991. Knowing it was his "lifework," Tomkins conflated "life" and "work," reifying the superstition that its completion would equal death and refusing to release for publication long-completed material. He knew the risks associated with this obsessive,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826144047
• ISBN13: 9780826144041
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 9.9"