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-12391From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
I answer that, As stated above (OBJ[2]), “pudicitia” [purity] takes its name from “pudor,” which signifies shame. Hence purity must needs be properly about the things of which man is most ashamed. Now men are most asham…
- AHB-RC-368From Amplified Holy Bible (2015)
23 “f You shall eat the tithe (tenth) of your grain, your new wine, your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock before the LORD your God in the place where He chooses to establish His Name (Presence), so tha…
- STAC-RC-5553From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
I answer: some have held that grace and virtue differ only as different aspects of one identical essence, which we call grace in so far as it is freely given, or makes men pleasing to God, and which we call virtue in so…
- SCES-RC-106From The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967)
The world-building potency of religion is thus restricted to the construction of subworlds, of fragmented universes of meaning, the plausibility structure of which may in some cases be no larger than the nuclear family.…
- HCC-RC-4204From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The Anabaptists went still farther, and rejected infant-baptism because it lacks the element of faith on the part of the baptized. They were the forerunners of the Quakers, who dispensed with the external sacraments alt…
- SOP-RC-237From Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty (1999)
_____ & Sauer, K. P. Genetic sire effects on the fighting ability of sons and daughters and mating success of sons in the scorpionfly (Panorpa vulgaris). Animal Behavior, 43, 1992, 255–264. Tichet, J., Vol, S., Balkau, …
- JDC-RC-645From The John Dominic Crossan Essential Set (Jesus; The Birth of Christianity; The Power of Parable; The Greatest Prayer) (2004)
While that is true, it is much more significant that both the Life Tradition and the Death Tradition share a story pattern— the general persecution-vindication theme, with its emphasis on communal rather than individual…
- CPH-RC-066From Composition & Photography: Working with Photography Using Design Concepts (2022)
Go beyond the conventional; for example, you could even tear up a print and create a collage. Anthropomorphism is the human tendency to translate shapes into human, and by extension animal, form. For example, when someo…
- DCA-RC-319From The Divine Comedy (1950)
Now by these words, if thou hast gleaned them as thou should’st, the argument which would have troubled thee more times than this, is rendered void. But now across thy path another strait confronts thine eyes, through w…
- AQ22-RC-11795From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 2: A man should by no means give evidence on matters secretly committed to him in confession, because he knows such things, not as man but as God’s minister: and the sacrament is more binding than any…
- BREE-RC-002From The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988)
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, OCTOBER 1994 Copyright © 1988 by Edmund White Penguin Random House values and supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and cre…
- AEP-RC-112From Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (1988)
Augustine came to see his own will, then, divided and consequently impotent: “Myself I willed it, and myself I nilled it: it was I myself. I neither willed entirely, nor nilled entirely. Therefore I was in conflict with…
- AQ22-RC-11484From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Objection 2: Further, the sin of simony consists in giving the corporal for the spiritual, and it is to be utterly avoided. Therefore one ought not to give alms in order to receive a spiritual effect. Objection 3: Furth…
- GC-RC-342From Going Clear (2013)
42 “Once upon a time”: The Philosopher: The Rediscovery of the Human Soul , the Ron magazines, 1996, pp. 11–12. 43 “I have high hopes”: Miller, Bare-Faced Messiah , p. 81. 44 Hubbard explained to his agent: Ibid., p. 79…
- AQ22-RC-7968From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
It is therefore evident that God cannot make Himself not to be, or not to be good or happy: because He necessarily wills Himself to be, and to be good and happy, as we proved in the First Book. Again, it was shown above…
- STAC-RC-10767From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Objection 3: Further, Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iii, 3) that “the Holy Ghost came upon the Virgin,” (of whom Christ was to be born without original sin) “purifying her.” But this purification would not have been nec…
- STAC-RC-335From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
3. Secondly, we must consider what he means by when “is” is predicated as a third element in the enunciation, in the mode in which we have explained, there are two oppositions. In the enunciations already treated, in wh…
- STAC-RC-5609From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
On the second point: these retributions are said to have been divinely wrought because they were the result of the divine moving, not because of their connection with wilful deceit. This is especially the case with rega…
- AQ22-RC-6613From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
8. Moses says (Levit. xvii, 14): The soul of all flesh is in the blood. Now blood is transmitted with the semen, especially as the seed of the male is merely blood depurated by heat. Therefore the soul is transmitted wi…
- HCC-RC-638From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Diocletian, Emperor, in Roman characters, Diocles Augustus, counting only some of the letters, namely: DIo CLes aVg Vst Vs.1271 Diocletian was the last of the persecuting emperors (d. 313). So Bossuet. To his worthless …