Shame and Its Sisters

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

I bought a book titled _Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader_
(Eds. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank) at a book sale (for $ 1.00!)
last year. It's been sitting, unread, in my apartment for a while, but I'm
planning to read it now. I wonder if anyone has already read it. (Perhaps
Alec Ramsdell?) If so, what did you guys think?

The back cover of _Shame and Its Sisters_ says:

"Silvan Tomkins (1911-1991) was one of the most radical and imaginative
psychologists of the twentieth century. In _Affect, Imagery,
Consciousness_, a four-volume work published over the last thirty years of
his life, Tomkins developed an ambitious theory of affect steeped in
cybernetics and systems theory as well as in psychoanalysis, ethology, and
neuroscience. [Sounds wonderfully kooky!] The implications of his
conceptually daring and phenomenologically suggestive theory are now--in
the context of postmodernism--beginning to be understood. ...Featuring
intensive examination of several key affects, particularly shame and anger,
this volume contains many of Tomkins's most haunting, diagnostically
incisive, and theoretically challenging discussions...."

Yoshie