Anxiety
Unease about uncertain outcomes; the body and mind braced for what might come.
43 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Anxiety sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Anxietyfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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43 tagged passages
- EMUI-RC-086From The Erotic Mind (1995)
Longing—and the associated anxiety—reaches its zenith in romantic love, for it is here that your deepest vulnerabilities are exposed. In Dr. Tennov’s study of limerence, the most commonly reported physical reactions to …
- BKS-RC-112From The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (2014)
Another colleague, Claude Chemtob, who directs the Family Trauma Research Program at NYU Langone Medical Center, studied 112 New York City children who had directly witnessed the terrorist attacks on 9/11.[32] Children …
- UBH-RC-051From Under the Banner of Heaven (2003)
Whatever became of the vanished translation, Joseph was devastated when Harris confessed what had happened. “Oh, my God,” Joseph exclaimed. “All is lost!” It looked like his sacred mission had come to a premature end, w…
- SSE-RC-070From Scarred (2019)
Over the past few months but even as long ago as V-Week, when we’d observed Keith and the way he related to his upper ranks and the Espians, I had learned that if I had any inclination to express a concern about the pro…
- TWT-RC-105From Three Women (2019)
Was it normal to like the rest, though? She couldn’t tell too many people. Perhaps, she reasoned, the people she couldn’t tell were the repressed ones and she was the healthy person. But none of the books she read and n…
- WO-RC-242From White Oleander (1999)
Don’t you listen to that bad girl laughing, mija . You’re my baby, yes you are.” Later, Yvonne lay on the orange mat, blowing and counting, and I put the tennis balls under her back, switched to the rolled towels. I hel…
- HSUP-RC-180From The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure (1984)
2. But in regard to the Greek boy, the importance of his honor did not concern—as it would later in the case of the European girl—his future marriage; rather, it related to his status, his eventual place in the city. Of…
- D2-RC-176From Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (2014)
The best comment comes from Dharmesh. He owns 7 percent of the company, more than any other individual. At a $30 stock price, his 2.3 million shares are worth nearly $70 million. This windfall has come to him thanks to …
- CLS-RC-049From Cult, A Love Story: Ten Years Inside a Canadian Cult and the Subsequent Long Road of Recovery (2013)
We all knew the routine well and settled down quickly, assuming the position of the good meditation student: hands clasped in our laps, feet flat on the floor, spines straight, breathing deeply and slowly. I had a vague…
- AQ22-RC-11577From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 3: The Apostle had no intention of counselling total abstinence from food on account of scandal, because our welfare requires that we should take food: but he intended to counsel abstinence from a par…
- HCCP-RC-253From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
However, in spite of the efforts put forth in the closing period of the Middle Ages to shake off the fetters of the rigid ecclesiastical compulsion, it failed. The individual reformers and prophets prepared the way for …
- SGEE-RC-092From Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality (2007)
It’s amazing how many people do this exercise and discover that there are all sorts of things right below the surface that they weren’t aware of. It can be jarring to learn about yourself. To learn that all sorts of thi…
- BDT-RC-305From Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901)
Senator Buddenbrook stood without moving for two or three minutes. Then he pulled himself together, went back into the living room, stepped into the dining room and lit up that too. He busied himself with the buffet, dr…
- BBL-RC-184From Beyond Belief
When it was over, I was sure I was in serious trouble, but instead, Mr. Rathbun said I could return to post. Unsure of what to prepare for, I told Martino about the session, and he seemed worried for me but also acted a…
- JSPP-RC-218From The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982)
The difficult time between twenty-five years of school routine and the fear of dilatory, dilettante days. The city calls—experience and people call, and must be shut out by a rule from within. Tomorrow, Monday, the sche…
- COF-RC-124From Confessions of the Flesh (The History of Sexuality, Vol. 4) (2021)
Finally, if exagoreusis recommends that one examine oneself without respite, this is not so that one might establish oneself in one’s own sovereignty, or even that one might recognize oneself in one’s identity. It is al…
- UE-RC-085From In the Unlikely Event (2015)
She’d learned quickly never to say a critical word about any of them. As far as Henry was concerned, they were perfect. A hard act to follow. MiriRusty gave a little cough to get the attention back to the toasts. She he…
- MLS-RC-123From My Life on the Road (2015)
Competition.”8 I called either/or media questions “dumb and destructive,” since the two candidates were so much the same on issues. Also, it was way too soon to know who could survive the primaries, so I ended this way:…
- CHR7-RC-012From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 7 (1492 – Present) (2009)
Faced with the change of atmosphere in the 1520s, some humanists withdrew into an interior exile, ceasing to publish, or moving to fields of enquiry such as Classical history which could not easily be drawn into theolog…
- PT-RC-131From The Porn Trap: The Essential Guide to Overcoming Problems Caused by Pornography (2008)
As the list demonstrates, fears of quitting porn fall into the categories of emotional well-being, sexual enjoyment, and relating to others. These fears make sense given that porn use can play an important role in tempo…