Reviews for Old Crumlin to Pontymister in photographs

The average rating for Old Crumlin to Pontymister in photographs based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-05-15 00:00:00 Steven Boslau The function of any affect is to amplify the highly specific stimulus that set it in motion. Affects make good things better and bad things worse. Affects make us care about different things in different ways. When we are said to be motivated, it is because an affect has made us so. Whatever is important to us is made so by affect. Affect is the engine that drives us. Affects are biological. The affects are: interest-excitement, enjoyment-joy, surprise-startle, fear-terror, distress-anguish, anger-rage, dissmell, disgust, shame-humiliation A baby in the throws of an affect is a broadcaster of affect and we observers resonate with their transmission. The contagious quality of broadcast affect literally drags the observer into resonance. Babies do not modulate their broadcasts, but as we age we learn to decrease the intensity of our broadcasts to socially acceptable levels. Interestingly, sexual intercourse is one of the situations where adults are allowed (or even expected) to broadcast an unmodulated affect. Dissmell and disgust are mechanisms originally operating to limit a drive when it is at its height' hunger. Because our society place a value on interpersonal closeness, body odor becomes emphasized in our relationships. Whenever one person finds another inappropriate to the level of dissmell it is very difficult for them to built or maintain intimacy. Disgust is powerful because it creates intense conflict over continued desire for what has appeared so tasty and now has become nasty. The affective roots of prejudice always involves dismal and disgust. Shame-humiliation is similar to to dissmell and disgust in that it interferes with the positive affects (rather than drives) when they are at their. Shame exists to modulate the positive affects interest-excitement, and enjoyment-joy. Shame is a highly painful mechanism of inner tension that operates to pull us away from whatever might interest us or make us content. It is an impediment to something we had wanted or enjoyed or which excited or pleased us. The more excitement, the more shame is triggered when this impediment is sensed. The shame family includes embarrassment, humiliation, mortification, shyness, discouragement. Shame often attends the exposure of something that we would have preferred to keep hidden' it is often associated with privacy. The basic themes of growth and development involve changes in size and strength dexterity and physical skill dependence vs. independence cognitive ability communication sense of self gender identity and sexuality interpersonal skills Pride is attached to acquisition of these skills, and shame is attached to any failures along the way. They do not develop at the same time or rate. Pride is competence pleasure' when our competence has been tested in an atmosphere of excitement. Added to the adult sense of pride is a pleasant feeling of uniqueness and social distinction. Success, especially in an exciting venture, triggers joy. The very concept of skills is immutably locked to matters of shame and pride. Clumsiness is about shame, grace is about pride. A massive withdrawal of interest is called apathy. Without interest, life is dull. Size and Strength Bigness is about power. To a child, becoming bigger means becoming less helpless and dependent' about becoming more powerful. In the world of shame and pride, size comes to be an important metaphor. Size matters. Dexterity and Skill Any time we take on something new we court pride and risk shame in the service of comprehension. "Confusion" in the face of learning is an episode of the shame effect. Learning stimulates the affect of interest-excitement. The moment we feel daunted by what we are learning, the shame affect is triggered. Sense of Self The very notion of personal identity is intimately involved with whatever we measure along the shame/pride axis. For the adult, shame is almost always defined as the pain associated with some perceived deficiency in the self, and pride the pleasure associated with an elevation in the sense of self. Shame produces a sense of an incompetent self, that there is part of the self that is then created by shame. These powers of shame force us to consider who we were before the shame hit and what we have returned to as shame subsides. Shame is the affect most likely to produce attention to the nature of the self. Shame produces painful self-awareness at every stage of human development. Shame augments our memory of failure and protects us from whatever ganger might occur, when, in a moment of need, we might try something well beyond our capacity. Sex Too many notes to record!

Review # 2 was written on 2020-04-19 00:00:00 E. Suzanne Rowland Powerful and insightful ideas. The book is poorly edited and at times confusing because of it'but the effort required is well worth it.