Note on Quotations

References in the text to Silvan Tomkins’s four-volume work Affect Imagery Consciousness (New York: Springer, 1962–92) are given by the letters AIC, and quotations from these volumes are denoted by (volume:page). We quoted from this work extensively to convey a sense of Tomkins’s prose style and thinking habits. In each chapter, we highlighted in bold phrases or sentences that communicate important ideas. All italics in these quotations are Tomkins’s.