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-8834From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Whether this is a fitting definition of faith: “Faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not?” Whether faith resides in the intellect? Whether charity is the form of faith? Wh…
- SHF-RC-1083From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
9. These views of the middle state in connection with prayers for the dead show a strong tendency to the Roman Catholic doctrine of Purgatory, which afterwards came to prevail in the West through the great weight of St.…
- STAC-RC-8266From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Yet it is not to be believed that Augustine, by these words, meant that we are able in this life to see God in His essence. We must therefore inquire how, in this life, we see that unchangeable truth, or these eternal i…
- AQ22-RC-9959From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
The disposition of the orders which is mentioned by Gregory is also reasonable. For since the “Dominations” appoint and order what belongs to the Divine ministrations, the orders subject to them are arranged according t…
- FSJ-RC-087From Fifty Shades of Grey (2011)
His brow knits. “I told you, I have issues with wasted food. Eat,” he snaps. His eyes are dark, pained. Holy crap. What is that all about? I pick up my fork and eat slowly, trying to chew. I must remember not to put so …
- STAC-RC-11519From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 3: Evil is twofold. One is a true evil, for the reason that it is incompatible with one’s natural good, and the hatred of such an evil may have priority over the other passions. There is, however, ano…
- STAC-RC-10502From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 1: That which is first seized by the intellect is being: wherefore everything that we apprehend we consider as being, and consequently as one, and as good, which are convertible with being. Wherefore …
- TMM-RC-068From The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature (2000)
However, in most animals, distinct sexes have evolved. They simply specialize in making DNA packets of different sizes. The female sex evolved to make large packets in which their DNA comes with additional nutrients to …
- STAC-RC-3455From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
276. As to the first [189] he uses the following argument: Nature is the principle of motion and change, as is evident from the definition set down in Book II. (But how motion and change differ, will be shown in Book V.…
- HCCC-RC-1185From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Under the name of the "philosopher" Hermias ( JErmeiva" or JErmiva") otherwise entirely unknown to us, we have a "Mockery of Heathen Philosophers," which, with the light arms of wit and sarcasm, endeavors to prove from …
- VLA-02BDAEFA-RC-322From The Interpretation Of Dreams A Collector s Edition – Featuring Original Illustrations & a Modernized Translation
In the case of a hungry child, this requires external intervention to alleviate the inner tension. A critical aspect of this experience is the perception of a specific external stimulus (e.g., food), which becomes assoc…
- CHR2-RC-099From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 2 (4 BCE – 451 CE) (2009)
Apostles in every diocese. It was another stage in the discussion which Ignatius, Clement and Irenaeus had begun. In Rome the argument was mainly over whether there could be any forgiveness at all for those who had laps…
- MMIS-RC-103From Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (1932)
Though he claims absolute truth for them, they are conditioned by peculiar circumstances, as all convictions are. If comfortable people are too complacent, he may be too desperate to see all the relevant facts. Since he…
- STAC-RC-13107From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Objection 6: Further, it is written (Mat. 27:55,56): “There were there”—that is, by the cross of Christ—“many women afar off, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto Him; among whom was Mary Magdalen, and …
- MTJC-RC-091From Mystical Tradition: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2008)
Outline I. Islam emphasizes the unity of God and the unity of the umma (Muslim community), but like other historical religions, it has experienced internal divisions. A. The Sunni tradition, to which 8590 percent of Mu…
- SP-RC-210From Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (1999)
64. symmetrical flowers: A. P. Moller and M. Eriksson, “Patterns of fluctuating asymmetry in flowers: Implications for sexual selection in plants,” Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 7, 1994, 97–113. A. P. Moller, “Bumble…
- STAC-RC-1093From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
PSEUDO-CHRYSOSTOM. But as the two had asked carnally, so now the ten are grieved carnally. For as to seek to be above all is blame-worthy, so to have another above us is mortifying to our vanity. JEROME. But the meek an…
- JDCE-RC-543From The John Dominic Crossan Essential Set (Jesus; The Birth of Christianity; The Power of Parable; The Greatest Prayer) (2004)
10–11, 15 The first step in containing the radical abnegation of Didache 1:2b–5a is to interpret it with Didache 1:5b–6. The four injunctions in Didache 1:4 are prefaced with the command to “keep away from fleshly and b…
- STAC-RC-14353From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
On the contrary, Jerome writing against Vigilantius addresses him thus: “For thou sayest that the souls of the apostles and martyrs have taken up their abode either in Abraham’s bosom or in the place of refreshment, or …
- ML-RC-041From Martin Luther (2016)
Part of the difficulty that Luther would find as he trod this well-worn path was that God the Father and Jesus the Son were both principally thought of as fierce judges. So the role of comforter fell to Mary, the human …