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
- CFDM-RC-118From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009)
theological revolution of 518, but from his exile among friends in the safety of Egypt, Severus remained a powerful voice as the factions struggled for dominance at the imperial Court. In 527 there came to the throne on…
- STAC-RC-13686From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Nevertheless, it is difficult to see how anything can be generated from them. For it is quite evident that nothing is generated out of the body and blood of Christ which are truly there, because these are incorruptible.…
- LBN-RC-040From Little Birds (1979)
“You must not give that first surrender so much importance. I think that was created by the people who wanted to preserve their daughters for marriage, the idea that the first man who takes a woman will have complete po…
- HCCC-RC-474From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
written text: the Hebrew Matthew and the Greek proto-Mark; (2) Gospels partly original and partly second-handed: our canonical Gospels falsely attributed to Matthew, Mark, and Luke; (3) Gospels of the second and third h…
- MWSE-RC-323From Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition (2018)
And despite all these ways of using his “trophies,” the photographer continues to preserve his prey. — Barbara Bowman, student. [image file=Image00004.gif] Using AnalogyAnalogy is a special form of comparison. When a su…
- STAC-RC-7983From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Again. The effect proceeds from the active cause by the latter’s action. But God’s action is eternal: else He would become an actual agent from being an agent in potentiality: and it would be necessary for Him to be red…
- TEM-RC-247From The Erotic Mind (1995)
Not at all important [-0-1-2-3-4-] Very important e. Guilt (related emotions: remorse, naughtiness, dirtiness, and shame) Not at all important [-0-1-2-3-4-] Very important f. Anger (related emotions: hostility, contempt…
- CTHD-RC-009From The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700) (1984)
PS. Sac. Sum.Sei. Unt. Bill. Blngr. Alb. Antib. Assert.orth. Coen. Cone. Dec. Eliz. Ev.Joh. Ggn. Grat.just. Luc. Nacht. Or.err.miss. Perf. Resp. Brent. Resp.Coch. Scrip.auth. Sum. Test. Ver. Bon.VIII. Un.sanct. Bonagr. …
- AQ22-RC-13957From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
I answer that, According to the Philosopher (Ethic. v, 3,4), the mean of justice is considered with regard to an equation between thing and thing according to a certain proportion. Wherefore, since the very name of sati…
- DGB-RC-217From The Decameron (1353)
And all that Solomon said by way of reply was: ‘Love.’ This said, Melissus was promptly shown the door, and Joseph explained his own reason for coming. But the only answer he received from Solomon was: ‘Go to Goosebridg…
- STAC-RC-14447From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 4: Other things being equal, the state of the soul in the body is more perfect than outside the body, because it is a part of the whole composite; and every integral part is material in comparison to …
- STAC-RC-6047From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Arg. 4. A voluntary agent does not delay the execution of his purpose except in expectation of some future condition not yet realised. And this unfulfilled futurity is sometimes in the agent himself, as when maturity of…
- CFTT-RC-104From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009)
text), 64. 12 MacCulloch, 610–11. 13 J. Arrizabalaga, J. Henderson and R. French, The Great Pox: The French Disease in Renaissance Europe (New Haven and London, 1997), Ch. 4. 14 C. S. Dixon, ‘Popular Astrology and Luthe…
- STAC-RC-11838From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 3: As Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xi, 16) the price of things salable does not depend on their degree of nature, since at times a horse fetches a higher price than a slave; but it depends on their use…
- HCCC-RC-207From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
23:11, 15, 16—namely, whether it was the morrow following the first day of the Passover, i.e. the 16th of Nisan, or the day after the regular Sabbath in the Passover week; partly on the date of Christ’s crucifixion, whi…
- SHF-RC-2022From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
We add a list of the early archbishops and bishops of the four principal English sees, in the order of their foundation:43 Canterbury London Rochester. York Augustin 597 Mellitus 604 Justus 604 Paulinus 625 Laurentius 6…
- AQ22-RC-9575From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 2: The argument holds good as to the heaven, in so far as it denotes the entire sum of corporeal creation, for in that sense it is one. Reply to Objection 3: All the heavens have in common sublimity a…
- QPKW-RC-198From Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away (2022)
See also grit for certainty, 15 free solo climbing and, 67–70 honor and, xx–xxi Mount Everest and, 4 as positive attribute, xx resisting, 16 scientific studies on, xxiii–xxiv uncertainty fought with, 15 persistence, xvi…
- HCCC-RC-618From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
He wavered in his own view, but expressly says: "The Latin custom (Latina consuetudo) does not receive it among the canonical Scriptures;" and in another place: "All the Greeks receive the Epistle to the Hebrews, and so…
- HCC-RC-1480From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Still above the metropolitans stood the five Patriarchs,495 the oligarchical summit, so to speak, the five towers in the edifice of the Catholic hierarchy of the Graeco-Roman empire. These patriarchs, in the official se…