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abstraction, 25, 33, 36, 42, 46, 91

acting, 88, 111

actor, 10, 13, 90, 92, 94, 98, 101, 103, 109–11, 113, 124, 125, 161n20

affect(s): and acting, 88; co-assemblies, 6, 101; communication of, 7, 10, 17, 19, 22, 48, 49, 51, 52, 55, 59–60, 63, 65, 67, 70, 71, 83, 88, 94, 119; compositional aspect of, 11, 21, 24–46; contagion of, 48–51, 63; and emotion, 101, 154n9, 155n22; and ethics, 81, 135, 154–55n19; freedoms, 5, 8, 31, 50, 82, 101, 103, 154–55n19; as hinge, 7–8, 11, 93; and image, 58–9; inhibition and amplification of, 15, 60–61, 70, 81, 104, 125, 159n19 (see also repression; Tomkins, Silvan: and General Images); and language, 12, 18–19, 27, 36, 55, 59–60, 73, 94, 102, 106, 126; location of, 7, 34–35, 50, 58–59 (see also face; gesture; voice); and metacommunication, 19, 156n35; movement of, 1, 2, 11, 35, 51, 76, 94, 102, 117, 151 (see also identification; transference); and “original relation to the other,” 14, 155n28; redundancy, 50; regulation, 23, 52, 66, 121, 159n25, 162n20 (see also tempo); and theatricality, 10–11, 18, 81–82, 143; theories of, 1, 31, 97 (see also Bion, Wilfred; James, William; Klein, Melanie; object-relations theory; Tomkins, Silvan). See also entries for specific affects and feelings

affect theory, 1, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 61; definition of, 3; and poetics, 3. See also Tomkins, Silvan: and script theory

affective coordination, 98, 102–5, 110–13, 117, 121

“affective turn,” 4, 153n4

affectlessness, 3, 121, 138, 139, 143

aggression, 45, 106, 124

analog and digital, 6, 13

analysis. See Poe, Edgar Allan: and

Angell, Callie, 122, 123, 124, 126–7

anger, 3, 32, 39–40, 41, 43, 45, 50, 64, 65, 67, 68, 79, 81, 91; as basic affect, 5, 6, 101

anticipation, 100–103, 121. See also nervousness

anxiety, 38–39, 67, 159n19

Aristotle, 2, 85, 103

Artaud, Antonin, 12–13

astonishment, 81, 98, 138

attention, 1, 21, 25, 26, 42, 46, 72–73, 110, 142, 151; to affect, 1, 8, 29, 33–34, 76, 88, 99–100, 102, 152; analyst’s, 9, 36–37; audience, 111–13, 124–5; compassionate, 36; introspective, 6; media, 129, 139.

audience, 1, 9, 15, 25, 111, 150–52; James, Henry: and, 78–79, 91, 94–95, 160n10; and knowledge, 98–99, 108; response, 1, 2, 3, 47, 99–100; and shame, 64, 125, 146, 159n22; Stein, Gertrude: and, 96–99, 110, 161n3; Warhol, Andy: and, 120–21, 147–8. See also affective coordination

Bateson, Gregory, 18–19, 92, 133, 155n34

Bion, Wilfred, 1, 10, 33, 77, 82, 93, 95, 97, 98–99, 121, 152; Experiences in Groups, 22, 73–76, 83–85, 90, 114; on genius and Establishment, 91–92; Learning from Experience, 22, 106–7, 108–9, 114; theory of thinking, 91, 106–9, 110, 114, 162n; writing style, 75–76. See also container/contained; group(s); object-relations theory; reverie

boredom, 33, 124, 138

Brecht, Bertolt, 98, 103, 121

Brooks, Peter, 80–82

Burns, Charles, 68–70

Cage, John, 117, 139, 165n3

catharsis, 103

character, 52, 54, 58, 77, 81, 102

childhood, 35, 39, 72, 74, 77, 90, 110, 147

cinema. See film

circular causality, 132, 136, 147. See also feedback

Cole, Jack, 47–52, 61–62, 70, 71

comedy, 73, 75, 138. See also funny

comics, 47–52, 61–62, 68–70

communication, nonverbal, 83, 88. See also affect(s): communication of

compassion, 36–37. See also sadism

completion, 30, 103–5, 109–10

complexity, 26, 28–29, 102, 132; of affect, 21, 32, 58–61, 81–82, 91, 135; of groups, 114, 115; organized, 5, 30; and television, 128.

composition(al), 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 20, 24–26, 30, 36, 39, 40, 42, 46, 61, 70, 78, 81, 91, 103, 151, 156n7; differences, 34, 37; force, 1, 2, 152

confession, 65, 75, 146, 159n20

confusion, 9, 11, 21, 25–28, 32–36, 73, 77, 82, 83, 87, 97, 135; and death instinct, 10, 43–44, 60, 76, 81. See also envy; muddle

consumer, 120, 123, 144, 148–49

container/contained, 10, 22, 38, 61, 91, 107–8, 109, 113, 114, 121, 129, 137, 149

contempt, 5, 28, 60, 61, 67, 68, 158n12

control, 23, 57, 60, 61, 63, 91, 121, 136, 147–48, 159n25; cybernetic understanding of, 132–34. See also affect(s): inhibition and amplification of; feedback

conversion, 23, 121, 133–34, 135–36. See also Warhol, Andy: conversion to self

criticism, 1, 3–4, 19, 21, 33, 44, 51, 52, 63, 70, 154n9

crowd, 49, 56, 57, 61–62, 74. See also multiplicity

cybernetics, 3, 4, 23, 30, 58, 131–34, 147, 154n11, 155n20, 158n17, 164n34, 164n36

Cynics, 23, 131, 144–49

Darwin, Charles, 10, 101

death instinct. See Freud, Sigmund: and

deconstruction, 11, 16, 19, 51, 55, 81

Deleuze, Gilles, 4

depressive position, 44–46, 120, 136, 157–58n36.

Derrida, Jacques, 2, 55, 104; affect in his general theory, 11, 15, 154–55n19; and cybernetics, 155n20, 164n36; “Freud and the Scene of Writing,” 11–18; and materialism, 16, 18, 156n5; metaphor of the stage in, 11–18, 155n22; and structuralism, 13

despair, 57, 84, 90, 138. See also distress

destructiveness, 10, 37, 38, 43–45, 61, 63, 84, 91–92, 106, 109. See also envy

Diogenes, 145, 148

disgust, 5, 6, 45, 60, 68, 76

distress, 19, 32, 39–40, 41, 47–50, 54, 60, 67, 73, 86, 124, 156n35; as basic affect, 5, 41, 68; cry of, 41, 67, 89–90

embarrassment, 64, 90, 101, 146, 159n22.

emergence, 30, 58, 61, 76, 81, 106

emotion. See affect(s): and

emotional syncopation, 96, 96, 99, 110–12

empathy, 98. See also identification

enjoyment, 25, 32, 76, 87, 101, 156n5; as basic affect, 5, 31, 49, 50, 61, 63; and communion, 59–60; of excitement, 103; in infant development, 31; of mistake, 27–29, 147; of negative affect, 60

envy, 10, 21, 43–45, 46, 106, 124, 140.

ethics, 80–81, 131, 135, 160n2. See also affect(s): and ethics

evil eye. See Tomkins, Silvan: and taboos on looking

excitement, 3, 6, 25, 76, 100, 158n17; as basic affect, 5, 31, 101; for grammar, 30; in infant development, 31; nervous, 68–69, 100, 103, 110 (see also nervousness); Poe and, 52, 59, 60; Stein on, 22, 34, 98, 102–5, 109–10; Tomkins on, 22, 32, 60–61, 99, 101

expression, 6, 19, 20, 56, 60, 68, 70, 71, 82, 94, 124, 125, 127, 158n15; of envy, 44; facial, 10, 42, 47, 48, 50, 53, 55, 56, 58, 64–65, 83, 124, 129, 156n35; problem of, 53–55, 63, 68; and repression, 21, 52, 61, 80–81; theory of, 51, 61, 71; verbal, 12, 15, 84. See also affect(s): communication of, location of

expressiveness, 10, 18, 51, 52, 57, 58, 60, 65, 66, 68–69, 124, 139, 151

face(s), 11, 47, 94; in comics, 47–50, 68–69; infant perception of, 45, 157n36; as medium of affect, 7, 10, 17–18, 50, 128, 154n11; Poe and, 21, 52–58, 59, 63–65; reproduced and distributed, 118, 121, 128; in Warhol’s films, 123–28. See also expression, facial; mask(s)

fantasy, 19, 40, 89, 120–21, 128, 129, 146

fear, 37, 41, 45, 50, 55, 68, 77, 85, 89, 103, 104–5, 159n19; as basic affect, 5, 60, 61, 62, 67, 68, 101. See also anxiety

feedback, 3, 6, 7, 30, 58, 68, 121, 132, 136; negative, 30, 133, 134, 147; positive, 144, 147.

feeling, 1, 6, 8, 9, 21, 25, 26, 28, 29–30, 42, 51, 54, 57, 60, 65, 66–67, 68, 78, 80, 84, 94–95, 99–101, 102, 105, 107, 124, 128, 139, 152, 162n20

Feldman, Morton, 23, 150–52, 157n11, 165n3

film, 17, 18, 20, 22, 66, 67, 71, 109; Henry James and, 161n22; Poe and, 62, 70; psychotronic, 70; Jack Smith and, 165n50; Stein and, 115–16; and theater, 64, 115. See also Warhol, Andy: Empire, Outer and Inner Space, Screen Tests, Sleep

force, 13, 19, 26, 29, 41, 61, 80–81, 91, 151. See also composition(al) force

Foucault, Michel, 20, 23, 121, 164n31; The Courage of Truth, 131, 144–45, 148; critique of Althusser, 134–35; and cybernetics, 132–34; The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 131, 133–36, 142; on power, 133; and psychoanalysis, 135, 164n; and Warhol, 131–32.

frame(s), 2, 10, 18, 19, 47, 48, 52, 121, 123, 152; metacommunicative, 19, 155n34, 156n35

Freud, Sigmund, 3, 4, 12–15, 22, 51, 52; and death instinct, 10, 43, 44–45; differences between Klein and, 8–9, 24, 35, 40, 43; differences between Tomkins and, 4, 5, 24, 41, 67, 154n; and drive theory, 4–5, 41, 45; on group psychology, 74; “Note on the ‘Mystic Writing-Pad,’” 13–14; and transference, 8

frustration, 25, 105, 108; and group dynamics, 22, 77, 85; and thinking, 33, 106–7, 162n20

funny, 19, 131, 140, 147, 156n. See also comedy

gesture, 11, 14, 35, 42, 49, 56, 80, 94, 111, 113, 116, 124

Goldberg, Jonathan, 16–17, 18, 156n5

governmentality, 23, 131, 133, 134–35, 144, 146

grief, 5, 45, 49. See also distress

group(s), 13, 20, 33, 44, 77, 91, 93, 114, 115, 117, 130; basic assumption, 83–85, 90, 93; consciousness, 74, 75, 85, 90, 92, 156n7, 160n10; family, 22, 72, 74; individual and, 7, 15–16, 22, 51, 74, 85, 90, 91–92, 95, 99, 107; leader, 74, 84; psychology, 16, 22, 72–76, 82, 83–85, 93, 95, 99, 114; and technologies of affective communication, 22, 115, 117–18; therapy, 10, 73, 75, 114, 160n3; work group, 74, 83, 85, 90, 93

Hackett, Pat, 130, 136, 144, 147

Hadot, Pierre, 130, 131, 164n31

hand(s), 11, 14, 16, 18

Hejinian, Lyn, 36–37

Hellenistic philosophy, 130, 134, 135–36, 142, 143

here and now, 9, 21, 36–37, 40, 42, 56, 106. See also present moment

Hinshelwood, Robert, 9, 35, 40, 41, 75–76, 106, 119

Howe, Susan, 37

humiliation, 67, 76, 79, 126, 148. See also shame

identification, 48, 55, 66, 75–76, 90, 97–98, 108–10, 113–18, 121, 159n24; introjective, 8, 9, 74, 107, 109, 128, 135, 137; projective, 8, 9, 10, 67, 74, 85, 106–7, 109, 129, 135

impatience, 6, 94, 100, 101

infantile experience, 8–9, 31, 35, 38, 40, 41, 43–45, 54, 59, 74, 82, 105, 107–8, 109, 119–21, 157n, 162n20

intensity, 5, 6, 35, 50, 51, 58, 60, 81, 102, 116, 152, 154n9

interest, 99, 101, 139. See also excitement

interpretation, 19, 35, 37, 73–74, 76, 95, 108, 147

intersubjectivity, 105, 134–35. See also affect(s): communication of; transference

introjection. See identification, introjective

irony, 19, 73, 75, 77, 83, 86, 123, 137, 140, 143

Isaacs, Susan, 41–43

James, Henry, 1, 3, 19, 20, 29, 72–95, 98, 114–15, 152; The Golden Bowl, 93–94; Guy Domville, 78, 96; late style, 22, 78, 92–95, 160n10; and melodrama, 80, 82; midcareer novels, 21, 78; notebook, 78–79, 85; preface to New York edition, 73, 77, 90–92; scenic method, 16, 78–79, 81; stage directions, 94, 161n20; and television, 94–95; and theatricality, 78, 79, 82, 90–91, 92, 160n10, 161n14; and transferential poetics, 76; What Maisie Knew, 10, 21–22, 72–92.

James, William, 21, 30, 31, 97, 139, 156n7; radical empiricism, 42; theory of emotion, 7, 22, 99–100. See also knowledge, of acquaintance and -about

James-Lange theory of emotion. See James, William

keeping time. See tempo

Klein, Melanie, 1, 8–10, 16, 21, 22, 24, 26, 35–36, 40–45, 55–56, 74, 77, 93, 105–6, 119–20, 135, 152, 163n9; Controversial Discussions, 40–41; and “deep interpretation,” 37; “Envy and Gratitude,” 43–44; and play technique, 8, 35; and transference, 8–9, 76. See also identification; object-relations theory; phantasy

knowledge, 20, 22, 26, 35, 45, 70, 76–78, 82, 85–88, 96–97, 98–99, 102–3, 108–10, 114, 135, 139, 141, 142; of acquaintance and -about, 102, 106; emotional conditions of, 29, 32, 99, 106, 109

Kurnick, David, 92–93, 160n10, 161n20

language. See affect(s): and

law of the excluded middle, 43, 156n7

leader. See group(s), leader

Likierman, Meira, 41

liveliness, 27–29, 30, 33–4, 38, 44, 46, 78, 100, 104–5, 116, 120, 127–28, 130, 138, 147, 156n5

liveness. See television

logic of noncontradiction, 32. See also law of the excluded middle

mask(s), 52, 70, 126

mass culture, 21, 70, 97, 120, 142–44. See also media, mass

materialism, 16, 18, 156n5, 158n15

materiality of verbal expression, 12, 15. See also writing: material conditions for

media, 1, 4, 18, 20, 50, 70, 115, 118, 122, 123, 127, 129, 137, 139; and affective communication, 17; mass, 10, 17, 19, 22, 129; sociological approaches to, 15–17, 20; studies, 17, 115; and theatricality, 2. See also mass culture; technology

McLuhan, Marshall, 17, 164n34

melodrama, 80–81, 89, 91, 111, 112, 161n12

memory, 13–14, 18, 34, 39, 46, 53, 54, 63, 76, 85, 89, 102, 104, 117

mesmerism, 51, 158n14

metacommunication. See affect(s): and

Meyer, Steven, 29, 99–100

mise-en-scène, 11–12, 13, 101, 126

middle ground, 32, 35, 39. See also law of the excluded middle

“middle ranges of agency,” 32

mistake, 58, 100. See also Stein, Gertrude: and poetics of; Warhol, Andy: commitment to

modernism, 21, 26–27, 33, 36–37, 38, 46, 51, 70, 71, 98, 106, 115–17, 121, 122–23, 142, 143, 154n9

Moon, Michael, 161n13, 163n9

motivation, 2, 3, 5, 11, 14–15, 18, 20, 24, 31, 34, 41, 55, 58, 59, 64, 72, 73, 78, 79, 81–83, 102, 105, 113, 152, 153n4

movies. See film

muddle, 73–74, 76, 81, 83, 91. See also confusion

multiplicity, 12, 14, 15–16, 25, 55, 57–58, 59, 61, 81, 105, 113, 128–29, 154n11

nervousness, 22, 63, 68–69, 99–101, 103, 110. See also anticipation

object relations, 8, 9, 14, 41, 74, 76, 135, 154–55n19

object-relations theory, 1, 4, 8, 24, 35, 40, 55–56, 99, 105, 119–20, 160n5; compatibility with Tomkins’s theory, 41, 45, 157–58n36; relation to Jamesian tradition, 105–6. See also Bion; Klein

out there, 23, 62, 150–52. See also transferential poetics

paranoia, 75, 159n20

paranoid-schizoid position, 44, 120

part-objects, 8, 43, 44, 82, 107, 119. See also object relations

perception, 2, 13–14, 18, 25–26, 33, 38–40, 52, 73–74, 83, 85, 87, 88, 100, 101, 104, 105, 119, 120, 132, 136; Nachträglich nature of, 14; role of affect in, 21, 24, 31–32, 42–43, 46. See also frame(s); here and now

performance, 1, 10, 15, 18, 64, 82, 88, 89, 94, 96, 99, 100, 101, 110, 117, 121, 123, 125, 139, 141–43, 151–52; bad, 144, 147

performativity, 8, 26, 79, 152, 161n20

phantasy, 2, 9–10, 14, 16, 21, 24, 32, 35, 37, 40–42, 43, 55–56, 59, 74, 85, 90, 93, 106, 119, 128, 160n5

phenomenology, 5, 6, 8, 22, 24, 33, 65, 70, 92, 103, 105, 109

physiognomy, 56–57, 58, 158n15

physiology, 7, 10, 21, 29, 41, 50, 51, 52, 100, 123, 124, 158n15, 163n23. See also physiological psychology

physiological psychology, 6, 29–30, 34, 99

Picasso, Pablo, 45–46, 116

play, 13, 18–19, 38, 55–56, 70, 76, 81, 110, 113, 139, 141, 144. See also Klein, Melanie: and play technique

pleasure, 28, 47, 51–52, 59, 81, 101, 111, 125, 141, 147

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1, 2, 3, 6, 19, 20, 21, 51–71, 94–95, 97, 143, 152; and analysis, 55, 158n; and character, 52, 54; “Letter to B--,” 51–52; “Ligeia,” 53–54, 56; “Maelzel’s Chess-Player,” 159n25; “The Man That Was Used Up,” 53–54, 56, 58; “The Man of the Crowd,” 56–58, 63; and media, 62–68, 70–71; “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” 55; “The Philosophy of Composition,” 2, 52, 54; and poetics of effect 2, 51–52, 67–68; “The Purloined Letter,” 55, 158n; “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains,” 54, 56; “The Tell-Tale Heart,” 6, 21, 52, 60, 62–70

poetics, 1, 2, 3, 17, 19, 22, 25, 33, 51, 52, 59–60, 71, 75, 98, 120, 129, 136, 142, 151; definition of, 2–3; American, of the contemporary, 139; telepoetics, 20. See also Aristotle; Poe, Edgar Allan: and poetics of effect; Stein, Gertrude: and poetics of mistake; transferential poetics; Warhol, Andy: televisual

Pop Art, 121, 123, 129, 136, 140, 142, 145, 149

portraiture: Stein and, 34, 102, 113–17; Warhol and, 122–29, 144, 148

present moment, 101–2, 103, 117, 139, 148. See also here and now

projection. See identification, projective

psychedelia, 125, 129

psychoanalysis, 4, 16, 32, 35, 36, 54, 55, 60, 63, 73, 76, 82, 91, 110, 123, 128, 129, 131, 135, 157n15, 159n19, 164n43, 165n50; and hypnosis, 51; neutrality in, 123–125; and sex drive, 5, 8, 82; total situation, 36. See also Bion, Wilfred; Freud, Sigmund; Klein, Melanie

queerness, 36, 48, 70, 91, 123, 131, 144, 163n9, 165n60

radio, 17, 18, 20, 115

rage. 45, 65, 67. See also anger

reading, 6, 15, 18, 21, 25–26, 28–29, 39, 56–57, 59, 68, 75–76, 86, 103, 106, 110, 132, 138, 147

Reed, Lou, 70

relief, 103–5, 109

repression, 5, 15, 20, 21, 37, 52, 60, 63, 67–68, 80–81, 154n8. See also affect(s): inhibition and amplification of

resentment, 79, 81, 91

reverie, 98, 107–9, 111, 113, 121

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 98, 103, 118

sadism, 36–37, 57, 73, 90, 124

sadness, 47–48, 50. See also distress; grief

screen, 19, 121, 126–28, 129, 139. See also Warhol, Andy: Screen Tests

Sedgwick, Edie, 122, 126–29, 141, 163n23

Sedgwick, Eve, 3, 20–21, 32, 154n17, 161n14, 162n20, 165n61

self-care, 20, 131, 135–36, 141. See also therapeutics

self-organization, 30. See also emergence

sexuality, 8, 16, 51, 77, 78, 82–84, 86–90, 101, 119, 131, 140–41, 144, 159n21, 163n9, 165n60

Shakespeare, William, 110–11, 115

shame, 6, 59, 60–65, 68, 76, 77, 79, 83, 89, 146, 165n61; as basic affect, 5, 6, 60, 61–65, 68–70, 101, 125, 157–58n36; and theatricality, 63–64, 90–91, 159n22, 161n14. See also Tomkins, Silvan: and taboos on looking

shamelessness, 3, 6, 21, 52, 62–63, 65, 70–71, 145–46

Shaviro, Steven, 142–43

Smith, Adam, 10, 48–50, 66–67, 97–98, 118, 159–60nn24–26

sociopolitical system, 20, 115, 134

sound, 25, 37, 53–54, 65–66, 113, 125–26, 126, 151, 159n25, 161n21

spectator, 22, 49, 66, 77–78, 82, 83, 85, 87–88, 90, 97, 98, 118, 122, 129, 159n24; “impartial,” 66. See also audience; viewer

spiritual exercises, 130, 136. See also therapeutics

Spinoza, Benedict, 156n5

stage, 11–15, 18, 19, 64, 78, 80, 88, 91, 92, 96, 97, 98, 100–1, 104, 109, 111–13, 125, 139, 150, 165n48; on and off, 13–15, 155n27

Stein, Gertrude, 1, 3, 19, 20, 24–46, 91, 96–118, 120, 121, 139, 143, 152; and audience, 96–97, 161n3; as audience, 99–101; The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas, 36, 96, 110, 115, 161n3; “Composition as Explanation,” 2, 3, 24–26; and continuous present, 36, 38; Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, 113; and excitement, 101–5 (see also nervousness); An Exercise in Analysis, 112; Four in America, 115; genius, definition of, 34, 116; landscape plays, 10, 12, 22, 91, 97, 99, 112–13, 117, 120; A Long Gay Book, 114; The Making of Americans, 102, 114; Many Many Women, 114; “Meditations on Being about to Visit My Native Land,” 97; “Paintings,” 33; Picasso, 45–46; “Plays,” 10, 22, 96–115; poetic project, 25; poetics of mistake, 9, 21, 27–30, 147 (see also mistake); “Poetry and Grammar,” 26–30, 37, 38, 117; “Portraits and Repetition,” 32, 33–35, 102, 116; Tender Buttons, 21, 37–40, 114; Three Lives, 36; United States lecture tour, 96–97, 115, 161n; What Happened. A Play, 114

structuralism, 4, 5, 13, 37

subject/structure, 15–16

sublime, 60, 68

surprise, 35, 37, 76, 81, 89, 98, 138, 147; as basic affect, 5, 68

sympathy, 47–50, 51, 66, 86, 87, 97–98, 159n24, 160n26. See also Smith, Adam

system, 11, 15–16, 21, 30, 130, 133

systems theory, 4, 7, 11, 17, 30, 155n20

technology, 1, 2, 4, 16, 19, 28, 34, 115, 122, 132, 137, 139, 143, 164n34; of affective communication, 22, 118; broadcasting, 18, 22; graphic, 16–19, 56, 116–17, 121, 126, 151, 158n14. See also film; radio; television; writing

telephone, 136–38, 147

television, 2, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 71, 92–95, 115, 116, 118, 119–21, 139, 149, 155n32; as analyst, 128–129; commercials, 122, 128; as culture industry, 121; and cybernetics, 132; as experimental instrument, 125–26, 132; game shows, 146, 161n; intimate scale of, 93–95, 143, 146; liveness, 122, 123, 126; contrast with movies, 120–21, 127–28, 143; reality, 146, 147, 161n20; scanning, 116–17, 129, 132; slang words for, 119; talk shows, 126, 127, 141; as therapeutic device, 23, 121, 129, 137–44. See also Warhol, Andy: televisual poetics

televisual perspective (on emotion), 23, 120, 121, 123, 126, 139, 142–43

tempo, 66, 97, 98, 113, 139, 151, 159–60n25

terror, 45, 55, 57, 60, 65–66, 68, 159n19. See also fear

theater: metaphor of, 10–15, 118, 159n24; problem of, 22, 100, 103, 109, 111, 114, 118; technologies of, 115

theatricality, 2, 10, 47, 62–63, 64, 71, 77–78, 82, 87–90, 92–93, 121, 125, 139, 140, 143, 152, 160n10; conceptual intimacy with affect, 10, 11, 18–19, 121; definition of, 19; hollowness of, 139, 165n48; and shame, 63–64, 90, 161n14; of social relations, 98, 103; and taboos on looking, 21, 63–64, 71, 125–26; and vindication, 78–81, 91. See also stage; theater; writing: theatricalization of

therapeutics, 22, 23, 37, 44, 121, 129–49

thinking, 10, 11, 18, 20, 21, 25, 34, 36, 40, 42, 44, 91, 93, 98, 102, 106, 109, 132, 148, 152, 160n5; apparatus for, 107; as definitively transindividual, 108. See also Bion, Wilfred: theory of; frustration, and; group(s), work group

Tomkins, Silvan, 1, 3, 4–8, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 30–32, 36, 52, 55, 58, 97, 99; and affect-object reciprocity, 31–32, 35, 40, 101; compatibility with object-relations theory, 10, 41, 45, 154n17, 157–58n36; critique of drive theory, 4–5, 41; and death instinct, 10, 45; and General Images, 21, 52, 58, 59–60, 66, 67–68, 70, 81; and ideology, 7, 8, 154n; “inverse archaeology,” 7; and masochistic strategy of affect magnification, 60, 62, 67–70; and role of affect in perception, 31, 32; and script theory, 10–11, 58, 59, 61; and taboos on looking, 21, 52, 63–65, 68, 70, 71, 125–26; and television, 125–26. See also affect(s); feedback; phenomenology

tragedy, 4, 103

transference, 1, 2, 7, 8–9, 19, 34, 51, 55, 76, 95, 102, 114, 115, 121, 124, 126, 128, 129, 143, 152

transferential moment, 6–8, 20

transferential poetics, 1, 2, 8, 22, 23, 70, 76, 78, 90, 93, 150–52

translation, 12, 73, 74

uncanny, 3, 52, 54, 67–68, 78, 90, 159n20

verbal behavior. See affect(s): and language

vicarious, 64, 77, 78, 86, 89, 141

video, 120, 122, 126–127, 129, 146, 163n14

viewer, 47, 48, 50, 93–94, 95, 119, 121, 124, 126, 128, 129, 146, 147, 148, 164n34

vindication, 78, 90, 91, 92; and theatricality, 78–81; and vindictiveness, 79

voice, 7, 10, 17, 18, 42, 47, 50, 80, 94, 112, 118, 121, 127, 128, 129

Warhol, Andy, 1, 3, 10, 17, 19, 20, 22, 117, 120–49, 152; Andy Warhol’s Diaries, 146; and cable television, 122, 163n5; commitment to mistake, 144, 147, 148; conversion to self, 136–43; and cybernetics, 132, 164n34; and Cynic philosophy, 144–149; Empire, 120, 122; the Factory, 122, 123, 127, 130, 139; Interview, 144; as nobody, 137; Nothing Special, 138, 146, 149; Outer and Inner Space, 122, 126–29, 137; The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), 23, 121, 122, 128, 129, 130–32, 136–148; and queerness, 123, 138, 144, 163n9; Screen Tests, 123–26, 129, 142; Sleep, 120, 122; Soap Opera, 122; and television, definition of, 132; televisual poetics, 120, 122–29; Time Capsules, 148–49.

Wiener, Norbert, 132, 133

Williams, Raymond, 17, 20

writing: material conditions for, 25, 30, 35, 54, 151, 152; space of, 13–15; theatricalization of, 2, 18–20, 52, 93, 143, 152. See also materiality of verbal expression

wonder, 77, 90