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
- JDCE-RC-660From The John Dominic Crossan Essential Set (Jesus; The Birth of Christianity; The Power of Parable; The Greatest Prayer) (2004)
But those passing references are unintelligible without some story at least similar to that in the Cross Gospel source of the Gospel of Peter . Finally, recall, from above, that Van Voorst said Recognitions 1.33–71 had …
- SOP-RC-194From Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (1999)
84. genes and happiness: D. Lykken and A. Tellegen, “Happiness is a stochastic phenomenon,” Psychological Science, 7, 1996, 186–189. 85. “happier people tend to perceive themselves”: Diener, Wolsic, and Fujita, p. 120. …
- SSS-RC-767From The Second Sex (1949)
This accounts for the importance the young man gives to love’s apprenticeship;19 we have seen how Stendhal and Malraux marvel at the miracle that “I myself am another.” But Gusdorf is wrong to write “and in the same way…
- AQ22-RC-10357From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 2: Genus is taken from matter, as is stated in Metaph. viii, 2; and in accidents the subject takes the place of matter. Now it has been said above that pleasure and sorrow are generically contrary to …
- HCCC-RC-4086From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
To be just, we must recognize the sectarian imperfections of Bible versions, arising partly from defective knowledge, partly from ingrained prejudices. A translation is an interpretation. Absolute reproduction is imposs…
- STAC-RC-14708From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 2: Evil, as evil, does not move the will, but in so far as it is thought to be good. Yet it comes of their wickedness that they esteem that which is evil as though it were good. Hence their will is ev…
- WSF-RC-001From Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (1997)
Title : Why Is Sex Fun? (Science Masters) Author: Diamond, Jared WHY IS SEX FUN? WHY IS SEX FUN?The Evolution of Human Sexuality JARED DIAMOND [image file=image_rsrc1P2.jpg] [image file=image_rsrc1P3.jpg] A Member of th…
- STAC-RC-9327From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 1: We can grant, without distinction, that the Son has the same power as the Father; but we cannot grant that the Son has the power “generandi” [of begetting] thus taking “generandi” as the gerund of …
- AQ22-RC-2963From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
HILARY. (de Trin.) Heretics, among their other impieties, misinterpret these words of our Lord’s, and say, that if His Father is their Father, His God their God, He cannot be God Himself. But though He remained in the f…
- STAC-RC-4306From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
He gives the second argument. He says that in opposing “ these views, ” or positions, “ it is necessary to postulate, ” or request, not that someone should admit that something either is or is not in reality, as has bee…