Marvelously Interesting and Useful Model

• Here's Wishing I Can Proffer A Sympathetic Bit by Jim Duffy, 4/30/97
  • Anger as the Tip of a Pyramid by Vick Kelly, 4/30/97
    
    

Vick, Your compliments for my posting are much appreciated. Given how much I admire the way you go about using Affect Theory and writing so clearly on it as well as your genial and often humorous ways of presenting things, your compliment means a lot to me. It is gratifying to begin to feel I�m getting a handle on Affect Theory. About six years ago I believed Tomkins�s theory might forever elude me. You guys at SSTI are great in helping to make that no longer my belief. Although I do think it�s still going to take many more years to get a satisfying sense of mastery, and I suspect huge parts of Tomkins�s theory, since it is such a rich and extensive theory, may remian more or less out of reach.

Your pyramid model is superb, exciting, and very memorable. It�s really neat. And your example with your wife�s shoes is no doubt so familiar, and thus very useful, to everyone, I suspect. Thanks for an unforgettable, interesting, and most practical posting. ........................................

�If nothing is real and everything is illusion, then I definitely paid too much for my carpet.� Woody Allen

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