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
- BMCG-RC-430From Books That Matter: The City of God (2016)
Books That Matter: The City of God sleep. Here again, Augustine’s exposition is highly unusual. Popular beliefs about the afterlife abound, but there’s not much extended and systematic philosophical discussion, pagan or…
- MP-RC-148From My People (2022)
We suffered from the heat only when there was nothing else to do, and when there was no one in the calaboose behind my house to go and talk to. We’d wander around the boxlike prison—altogether different from the red bri…
- BMB-RC-083From The Boys of My Youth (1998)
She made Brad go to bed a half hour ago but we can still hear him up there, punching his inflatable clown, which hits the floor and bobs back up again repeatedly. Sometimes he steps on the clown’s head for a while to ke…