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-10043From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
But this is unreasonable in many ways. Firstly, because it comes to the same that a form can be produced in another matter, or that it can cease to be in its proper matter; wherefore all things that can be generated are…
- TEM-RC-188From The Erotic Mind (1995)
Concentrate first on the steps that capture your attention or evoke strong emotions. It is wise to consider any strong response, positive or negative, as a signal to look closely—if not now, then later. Don’t worry abou…
- VBV-RC-256From The Vagina Bible (2019)
Tan, D.A., Haththotuwa, R., Fraser, I.S. Cultural aspects and mythologies surrounding menstruation and abnormal uterine bleeding. Best Pract Res Clin Obstet Gynaecol 2017; 40: 121–133. Chapters 18 and 19: Menopause and …
- HCCP-RC-1082From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
This collection is much more accurate, complete, and better arranged (especially in the Epistles) than the older collection of Dr. Giles (Sanctus Thomas Cantuariensis, London, 1845–1846, 8 vols., reprinted in Migne’s Pa…
- STAC-RC-6896From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to the Eighteenth Objection. The faith of Peter and Andrew is commended on account of their readiness to believe: and this was all the more enhanced as they needed fewer reasons for believing; and miracles by thei…
- HC-RC-644From A History of Christianity (1976)
Royal Historical Society (1974). 4 Prophecy influenced the Italian expedition of Charles VIII, who saw himself as a ‘second Charlemagne’. Luther identified his protector, Frederick of Saxony, as ‘the good Third Frederic…
- SSOI-RC-196From Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Kinky Crustaceans, Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep (2016)
euphoria-causing chemicals of marijuana: Aaron Rowe, “Chem lab: Sea urchin eggs plus marijuana equal amazing new drugs,” Wired Science, November 4, 2007, http://www.wired.com/2007/11/chem-lab-hybrid. good food gets sea …
- VLA-02BDAEFA-RC-307From The Interpretation Of Dreams A Collector s Edition – Featuring Original Illustrations & a Modernized Translation
The first of these Mem-systems likely establishes associations based on simultaneity, while subsequent systems organize the same material according to other principles, such as similarity or other forms of correlation. …
- AQ22-RC-3133From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
The change from being in potency, in one who learns and receives instruction from another (who actually has learning and teaches) either should not be called a ‘being acted upon’ (as we have said), or there are two mode…
- HCCC-RC-367From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
fourth century, and found in the second and third in different longer or shorter forms, it is in substance altogether apostolic, and exhibits an incomparable summary of the leading facts in the revelation of the triune …
- STAC-RC-2925From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
AUGUSTINE. (de Con. Evang. l. iii. c. vii) According to Matthew, When the morning came, they led Him away, and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate. (Mat. 27:1, 2) But He was to have been led to Caiaphas at first. How is it …
- AQ22-RC-9947From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 1: This objection considers principality on the part of the ruler, inasmuch as a multitude is best ruled by one ruler, as the Philosopher asserts in those passages. Reply to Objection 2: As regards kn…
- STAC-RC-9023From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Now names are thus used in two ways: either according as many things are proportionate to one, thus for example “healthy” predicated of medicine and urine in relation and in proportion to health of a body, of which the …
- STAC-RC-6285From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
But these cavillers seem to be ignorant of the nature of necessity. For there is a twofold necessity: a necessity of constraint, and this diminishes the praiseworthiness of virtuous acts, as telling against their volunt…
- HCC-RC-1192From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
(7.) Finally, we must mention four more Greek fragments of Irenaeus, which Pfaff discovered at Turin in 1715, and first published. Their genuineness has been called in question by some Roman divines, chiefly for doctrin…
- WT4Y-RC-074From White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016)
superior to that of Englishmen. But the truth lay in an ability to work collectively, a desire to understand and appreciate the demands of subsistence farming—a commitment to long-term survival in a sparsely settled col…
- STAC-RC-14694From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Whether one person has an aureole more excellently than another person?Objection 1: It would seem that one person has not the aureole either of virginity, or of martyrdom, or of doctrine more perfectly than another pers…
- TEB-RC-306From The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us (2017)
Trut, L. N. 2001. “Experimental Studies of Early Canid Domestication.” In The Genetics of the Dog, edited by A. Ruvinsky and J. Sampson, 15–41. Wallingford, U.K.: CABI. Uy, J. A., and G. Borgia. 2000. “Sexual Selection …
- VLA-0013056F-RC-051From Reliability and Validity Assessment (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Methodological research suggests excluding at least very implausible combinations that rarely occur in reality and therefore might not be taken seriously by respondents. 3. NUMBER OF CASES ✓ Is the number of vignettes p…
- VLA-0CE7B705-RC-098From the social construction of reality (1966)
In principle, at any rate, its definitions of reality must encompass the totality of being. The conceptual machineries by which this totalization is attempted vary historically in their degree of sophistication. In nuce…