Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader

by Silvan S. Tomkins and George Albert Brown

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822316943
• ISBN13: 9780822316947
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"