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Jul 7, 2010 · Working within the traditions of both Darwin and Freud, Silvan S. Tomkins fused evolutionary and psychodynamic concepts to describe the specific kinds of affects, their mechanism of action, and...
Nov 10, 2010 · Throughout much of his professional life Silvan Tomkins organized his work around the central concern of understanding human motivation, or as he expressed it, in the lead paper of this section on affect theory, he was engaged in a love affair with an idea: “What do human beings really want?”
- E. Virginia Demos
- 1995
Silvan Tomkins, a psychologist and playwright, developed Affect Theory from the 1960s until his death in 1992. He understood our feelings & emotions are biologically-based and wrote Affect Imagery Consciousness. This 4-volume work explains how we form our personality, develop strategies to survive, and alter our responses to life as needed.
Silvan Tomkins deserves much of the credit for the renewed interest in facial expression which has developed in the last two decades. His affect theory (see Part I) emphasized the importance of the face, providing a new conceptual framework for considering expression and emotion.
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Silvan Solomon Tomkins (June 4, 1911 – June 10, 1991) [1] was a psychologist and personality theorist who developed both affect theory and script theory.