Affect imagery consciousness volume ii the negative affects springer series author silvan tomkins publisher springer publishing company 1963 isbn 0826104436 9780826104434 length 580. Affect imagery consciousness volume ii the negative affects amazonde tomkins silvan s fremdsprachige bucher. Tomkins magnum opus affect imagery consciousness was published by springer publishing company in four volumes over 30 years when tomkins began writing the book in the 1950s american psychology was dominated by psychoanalytic and behaviorist theories neither of which placed much importance on the role of basic emotions in everyday human behavior. Affect imagery consciousness vol ii the negative affects tomkins s 1963 new york springer when published in 1963 volume ii of aic presented a pioneering and radical view of the nature of human motivation here the negative affects of distress and shame are delineated much attention is given to the way in which the young individual is inadvertently socialized to manage these innate