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Nov 10, 2010 · Overview of script theory. Script theory, as a theory of personality, is built upon a particular theory of the innately endowed nature of the human being (Tomkins, 1962, 1963, 1963b, 1979). Script theory assumes that the basic unit of analysis for understanding persons, as distinguished from human beings, is the scene and the relationships ...
If Affect denotes human (and animal) motivation beginning in biology as an energy amplifying mechanism, and Imagery denotes information processing, then Consciousness for Tomkins is a uniquely human synergy of motivational, cognitive, informational, and feedback subsystems.
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?”.
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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,...
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My goal in this chapter is to analyze the emergence in the United States in the post–World War II period of a new anti-intentionalist paradigm of the affects based on the role of error. That new paradigm eventually displaced alternative ways of thinking about the emotions.
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Sep 9, 2018 · This chapter introduces the major concepts of Tomkins’ affect-script theory and his idiosyncratic terminology, and includes an overview of his “human being theory” as a rejection of the once dominant drive theory of human motivation, which leads to...
