A Silvan Tomkins Handbook av Adam J. Frank, Elizabeth A. Wilson

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<P><B>An accessible guide to the work of American psychologist and affect theorist Silvan Tomkins</B><BR/><BR/> </P><P>The brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins (1911–1991) have inspired the turn to affect in the humanities, social sciences, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, these theories are not well understood. <I>A Silvan Tomkins Handbook</I> makes his theories portable across a range of interdisciplinary contexts and accessible to a wide variety of contemporary scholars and students of affect. </P><P><I>A Silvan Tomkins Handbook</I> provides readers with a clear outline of Tomkins’s affect theory as he developed it in his four-volume masterwork <I>Affect Imagery Consciousness</I>. It shows how his key terms and conceptual innovations can be used to build robust frameworks for theorizing affect and emotion. In addition to clarifying his affect theory, the <I>Handbook</I> emphasizes Tomkins’s other significant contributions, from his broad theo