Review: Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader
User Review - Ralowe Ampu - Goodreadswhat i carry with me is silvan tomkins' feel for narrative. there's all these little stories of what brings about affect. later there are the scripts that our minds devise through our experiences for ... Read full review
Review: Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader
User Review - Hannah - GoodreadsLike Freud (as described by the neuroscientist Gerald Edelman), Silvan Tomkins was "not doing science ... that was a mistake he made." What he *was* doing is practically unclassifiable: essayistic ... Read full review
Review: Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader
User Review - Jackmcintyre3 - GoodreadsIn terms of psychoanalysis, Tomkin's ideas are way more plausible to me than Freud's. Read full review
Review: Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader
User Review - Lisa - GoodreadsTomkins provides an account of an 'affect system' operating autonomously from any Freudian notion of sexual drives. In light of Foucault's debunking of a repressive hypothesis, Tomkins' work is particularly interesting for the unhinging of shame from sexual repression. Read full review
