Description: Affect Imagery Consciousness : The Complete Edition, Hardcover by Tomkins, Silvan S., ISBN 0826144063, ISBN-13 9780826144065, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
...brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Blink
The writings for which this essay is offered as a Prologue consumed him from the mid-1950s through the end of his life in 1991. Knowing it was his lifework, Tomkins conflated life and work, reifying the superstition that its completion would equal death and refusing to release for publication long-completed material. He knew the risks associated with this obsessive, neurotic behavior, and the results were as bad as predicted. The first two volumes of Affect Imagery Consciousness (AIC) were released in 1962 and 1963, Volume III in 1991 shortly before he succumbed to a particularly virulent strain of small cell lymphoma, and Volume IV a year after his death. This last book contains Tomkinss understanding of neocortical cognition, ideas that are even now exciting, but until this current publication of his work as a single supervolume, almost nobody has read it. The bulk of his audience had died along with the enthusiasm generated by his ideas. Big science is now more a matter of big machines and unifocal discoveries as the basis for pars pro toto reasoning than big ideas based on the assembly and analysis of all that is known. Tomkins ignored nothing from any science past or present that might lead him toward a more certain understanding of the mind. Every idea, every theory deserved attention if only because significant observations can loiter in blind alleys."--From the prologue by Donald Nathanson, MD
Volume 2 of Springers deluxe new edition of Tomkinss masterpiece includes The Negative Affects: Fear and Anger and Cognition: Duplication and Transformation of Information.
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Book Title: Affect Imagery Consciousness : the Complete Edition
Item Length: 10.3in
Item Height: 1.6in
Item Width: 7.4in
Author: Silvan S. Tomkins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Mind & Body, General, Physiological Psychology, Emotions
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Psychology, Philosophy
Item Weight: 47.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 1226 Pages
