A Silvan Tomkins Handbook - 9780816679997

A Silvan Tomkins HandbookFoundations for Affect Theory\nAuthor(s): Adam J. Frank, Elizabeth A. Wilson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816679997, 978-0816679997\nSynopsis\nAn accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins\n\nThe brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins [tel] have inspired the turn to affect in the humanities, social sciences, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, these theories are not well understood. A Silvan Tomkins Handbook makes his theories portable across a range of interdisciplinary contexts and accessible to a wide variety of contemporary scholars and students of affect.\n\nA Silvan Tomkins Handbook provides readers with a clear outline of Tomkinss affect theory as he developed it in his four-volume masterwork Affect Imagery Consciousness. It shows how his key terms and conceptual innovations can be used to bui.