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  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Note on Quotations
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I. Affect
    1. 1. Drives
    2. 2. The Face
    3. 3. Evolution
    4. 4. Freedom
    5. 5. The Positive
    6. 6. The Negative
    7. Interlude: Tomkins and Spinoza
  10. Part II. Imagery
    1. 7. Images
    2. 8. Theory, Weak and Strong
    3. 9. Scenes and Scripts
    4. 10. Ideology
    5. Interlude: Tomkins and Darwin
  11. Part III. Consciousness
    1. 11. Psychoanalysis at the Harvard Psychological Clinic
    2. 12. Cybernetics
    3. 13. The Psychology of Knowledge
    4. 14. The Minding System
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. Chronology of Tomkins’s Life and Work
  14. Bibliography of Tomkins’s Published Writings
  15. References
  16. Index
  17. About the Authors

About the Authors

Adam J. Frank is professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is the 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. She is the author of Gut Feminism; Affect and Artificial Intelligence; Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body; and Neural Geographies: Feminism and the Microstructure of Cognition.

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This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

Copyright 2020 by Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson

A Silvan Tomkins Handbook: Foundations for Affect Theory is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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