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
- STAC-RC-14170From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 1: The constant man, like the brave man, is fearless, as the Philosopher states (Ethic. iii, 4), not that he is altogether without fear, but because he fears not what he ought not to fear, or where, o…
- Q2-RC-073From Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away (2022)
Essentially, regardless of the history they have with the decision, they ask themselves, “If I were approaching this decision fresh, would I want to enter into this course of action?” As an example, imagine you own a st…
- RMJ-RC-288From The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
Carter, C. S. 1998. “Neuroendocrine Perspectives on Social Attachment and Love.” Psychoneuroendocrinology 23:779–818. Chan, W. T. 1963. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Cho…
- VLA-0CE7B705-RC-090From the social construction of reality (1966)
Some individuals “inhabit” the transmitted universe more definitely than others. Even among the more or less accredited “inhabitants,” there will always be idiosyncratic variations in the way they conceive of the univer…
- AUEN-RC-002From Available: The unfiltered and empowering new memoir for women about sex, dating and divorce after 40 (2021)
Chapter 3: Looking for Men, Everywhere Chapter 4: Never Come Between a Man and His Dog Chapter 5: The Grief Game Chapter 6: A Question of Availability Chapter 7: Homemade Chapter 8: A Hug Won’t Fix This Chapter 9: Comfo…
- STAC-RC-13260From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 1: As Augustine says in the same book: “Christ is the head of all His disciples who are members of His body. Consequently, when they put into writing what He showed forth and said to them, by no means…
- AQ22-RC-11242From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
On the contrary, It is written (Eph. 2:8,9): “By grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves . . . that no man may glory . . . for it is the gift of God.” I answer that, Two things are requisite for fa…
- AUB-RC-364From Augustine: A New Biography (2005)
391. Mend. 13.23.392. Frend, The Donatist Church.393. Epp. 56–57.394. Ep. 139.395. Ep. 58.396. This is how I read Ep. 112 (to Donatus) and Ep. 89 (to Festus).397. Ep. 66, see C. litt. Petil. 2.83.184.398. Ep. 52.399. Mo…
- AQ22-RC-10040From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
But if someone say that it is not natural to the soul to be united to the body, he must give the reason why it is united to a body. And the reason must be either because the soul so willed, or for some other reason. If …
- ASTC-RC-326From Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (Critical Essays on the Classics Series) (2006)
Tonneau, “The Teaching of the Thomist Tract on Law,” The Thomist 34 (1970): 11-83, demonstrates, is pervaded by biblical allusions: even in 1-2.90-97 there are 64 references to Scripture, compared with 48 to Aristotle a…
- TCTS-RC-073From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (1905)
[←17] Although psychoanalysis has not yet given us a full explanation for the origin of inversion, it has revealed the psychic mechanism of its genesis and has essentially enriched the problems in question. In all the c…
- AQ22-RC-4688From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
683. Now the why of a thing is always investigated in the following way: why does one thing belong to something else? For to ask why a musical man is a musical man, is either to ask (as has been said) why the man is mus…
- ANB-RC-286From Augustine: A New Biography (2005)
The emergence of a canon of scripture and the underlying idea of scripture is extraordinary. We have no history for it, no real discussion, just fragments of lists of debatable date. Sporadic debates erupted about wheth…
- DMBT-RC-205From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)
With its literalization, the Jewish adherents (Ebionites) reverted to Judaism, denying all supernatural nature to Christ and authority to Paul. Indeed so great became the opposition, it acquired a name, Docetism—Gnostic…
- HCCC-RC-631From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
But there is a radical difference between those Preterists who acknowledge a real prophecy and permanent truth in the book, and the rationalistic Preterists who regard it as a dream of a visionary which was falsified by…
- VLA-034966B6-RC-005From fundamentals of social research ch05
In order to satisfy this curiosity, man has delved into certain aspects of both social and physical. A by product of this process of specialization has been the splitting of the scientific disciplines from each other as…
- AQ22-RC-269From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
6. Then Aristotle says, Let us therefore consider enunciative speech, etc. Here he points out that only enunciative speech is to be treated; the other four species must be omitted as far as the present intention is conc…
- AHB-RC-321From Amplified Holy Bible (2015)
32 ‘Then on the seventh day [of the Feast of Booths]: seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish, 33 and their grain offering and drink offerings for the bulls, the rams, and the lambs, …
- AQ22-RC-9655From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
I answer that, It is impossible to admit that the power of the soul is its essence, although some have maintained it. For the present purpose this may be proved in two ways. First, because, since power and act divide be…
- EMUI-RC-070From The Erotic Mind (1995)
Notice how he is the source of all the action. But notice also that she is the primary recipient of the attention and pleasure—after all, it’s her fantasy. It could be argued that a girl’s early fantasies of sexual surr…