Confusion
Cognitive unsettling when signals do not resolve into a clear story or next step.
190 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
Confusion sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Confusionfrom 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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190 tagged passages
- AQ22-RC-1583From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
AUGUSTINE. (de Con. Evan. ii. 73) Nor let it trouble us that Matthew says, that he who addressed this question to the Lord tempted Him; for it may be that though he came as a tempter, yet he was corrected by the answer …
- DCA-RC-099From The Divine Comedy (1950)
6. There can be no doubt that Dante was ignorant of Greek and that his knowledge of everything relating to Greece was derived from intermediate Latin sources, principally Virgil. Perhaps this is the meaning intended.7. …
- STAC-RC-8484From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
OF THE DIFFERENCE AND ORDER OF PUNISHMENTSSINCE, then, as we have shown, a reward is something proposed to the will, as an end whereby it is urged to do well, and on the other hand punishment, as an evil to be avoided, …
- SHF-RC-2711From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The silence of nine contemporary writers is certainly very noticeable. They had the means of knowing the facts. Why, then, do we accept the later statements of Albert of Aachen and William of Tyre? These are the conside…
- AUB-RC-026From Augustine: A New Biography (2005)
What happened next is slightly odd. Augustine preserved a letter in which he writes to his new bishop, Valerius, to profess his unworthiness for his new office.52 He explains the tears he shed when he was forcibly ordai…
- CIO-RC-197From Cults Inside Out: How People Get In and Can Get Out (2014)
This is supposedly done when “such a person wants to practice cultivation” according to the precepts of Falun Gong.854 I pointed out that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had often expressed such concerns about racial purity.…
- EDCD-RC-320From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845)
The Spanish Church supplies us with an anticipation of the later devotions to Saints and Angels. The Canons are extant of a Council of Illiberis, held shortly before the Council of Nicæa, and representative of course of…
- CF-RC-200From Confessions of the Flesh (The History of Sexuality, Vol. 4) (2021)
The work of spiritual combat and the progress of chastity whose six stages Cassian describes can be understood, then, as a task of dissociation. One is very far from the economy of pleasures and their strict limitation;…
- TMM-RC-356From The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (2000)
36. Evolution of human skin color: Darwin (1871), Kingdon (1993). 37. Afrocentric approach to human evolution: Darwin (1871), Stringer & McKie (1996). CHAPTER 7 [image file=image_rsrc3AF.jpg] BODIES OF EVIDENCEGeneral r…
- GTFS-RC-025From Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)
1 SUBJECTS OF SEX/GENDER/DESIRE DOI: 10.4324/9780203824979-1 One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one. —Simone de Beauvoir Strictly speaking, “women” cannot be said to exist. —Julia Kristeva Woman does not have a…
- EEBP-RC-169From The Erotic Engine (2011)
Though its revenue still comes from erotica, Playboy is far from marginal. Well before Christie Hefner took over the company, Playboy was already a publicly traded, multi-million-dollar operation. Under her leadership, …
- JDCE-RC-777From The John Dominic Crossan Essential Set (Jesus; The Birth of Christianity; The Power of Parable; The Greatest Prayer) (2004)
The major thematic question running through Chapters 7 to 10 and all four gospel versions as megaparables about Jesus is this: Were attack parables—as distinct from challenge parables—characteristic of the historical Je…
- BBB-RC-159From Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works
21. The Textbook Wars Martin who had written a book about Marxism . That embarrassing falsehood could quickly be corrected . However, the deeper questions contained in these arguments over textbooks concern the stories …
- DEME-RC-144From The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception (2017)
(2017)How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain.Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [GCC] Barrett, L. F. & Bar, M. (2009) See it with feeling: Affective predictions during object perception.Philosophical Transactions o…
- VLA-01AD699D-RC-265From Design, Evaluation, and Analysis of Questionnaires for Survey Research (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)
The influence of question and respondent attributes. Sociological Methods and Research, 20, 139–181. Andrews F. M. 1984. Construct validity and error components of survey measures: A structural equation approach. Public…
- AQ22-RC-4853From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
From the proposition which has now been made clear the argument proceeds as follows: those who ask questions concerning opposites use the term whether, as has been mentioned above. But we use this term in the case of th…
- AHB-RC-1954From Amplified Holy Bible (2015)
God declares a believer to be acquitted (absolved, freed of all charges), then designates the believer to be brought into right standing before Him. l 13:44 Antioch in Pisidia. m 13:51 A symbolic act expressing contempt…
- HCC-RC-2699From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Three routes were chosen by the Crusaders to reach the Holy Land. The first was the overland route by way of the Danube, Constantinople, and Asia Minor. The second, adopted by Philip and Richard in the Third Crusade, wa…
- AVPP-RC-214From Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye (1974)
If, for example, the purpose of a drawing is limited to describing the triangularity of a pyramid as distinguished from the roundness of a cloud, the drawing may show nothing more specific than triangularity vs. roundne…
- ANB-RC-233From Augustine: A New Biography (2005)
Augustine does not much talk about the impact on his own congregation at Hippo of absorbing the larger church of Donatists down the street. We do not even know how the buildings were managed: Did Augustine move churches…