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.
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
