"...brilliant..."--Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Blink

"The writings for which this essay is offered as a Prologue consumed him from the mid-1950s throughthe end of his life in 1991. Knowing it was his ìlifework,î Tomkins conflated ìlifeî and ìwork,î reifyingthe superstition that its completion would equal death and refusing to release for publication long-completedmaterial. He knew the risks associated with this obsessive, neurotic behavior, and the results were as bad aspredicted. 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, andVolume IV a year after his death. This last book contains Tomkinsís understanding of neocortical cognition,ideas that are even now exciting, but until this current publication of his work as a single supervolume, almostnobody has read it. The bulk of his audience had died along with the enthusiasm generated by his ideas. Bigscience is now more a matter of big machines and unifocal discoveries as the basis for pars pro toto reasoningthan big ideas based on the assembly and analysis of all that is known. Tomkins ignored nothing from anyscience 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 L. Nathanson, MD

Volume 1 of Springer's magisterial new two-volume edition of Tomkins's magnum opus comprises The Positive Affects and The Negative Affects.

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Prologue by, Donald L. Nathanson, MD
VOLUME IóTHE POSITIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Consciousness and Affect in Behaviorismand Psychoanalysis
2. DriveñAffect Interactions: Motivational Information of Time and Placeof ResponseóWhen, Where, What, to What
3. Amplification, Attenuation and Affects
4. Freedom of the Will and the Structure of the Affect System
5. Evolution and Affect
6. Visibility and Invisibility of the Affect System
7. The Primary Site of the Affects: The Face
8. The Innate Determinants of Affect
9. Affect Dynamics
10. InterestñExcitement
11. EnjoymentñJoy and the Smiling Response: Developmental,Physiological and Comparative Aspects
12. The Dynamics of EnjoymentñJoy: The Social Bond
13. SurpriseñStartle: The Resetting Affect

VOLUME IIóTHE NEGATIVE AFFECTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments

14. DistressñAnguish and the Crying Response
15. DistressñAnguish Dynamics: The Adult Consequences of theSocialization of Crying
16. ShameñHumiliation Versus ContemptñDisgust: The Natureof the Response
17. ShameñHumiliation and the Taboo on Looking
18. The Sources of ShameñHumiliation, ContemptñDisgust andSelf-ContemptñSelf-Disgust
19. The Impact of Humiliation: General Images and Strategies
20. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:The Intrusion and Iceberg Models
21. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:The Monopolistic and Snowball Models
22. The Structure of Monopolistic Humiliation Theory, Including theParanoid Posture and Paranoid Schizophrenia
23. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Impact of Humiliation:Some Specific Examples of the Paranoid Posture

ReferencesóVolumes I and II
Author Index I-1
Subject Index I-6
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