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
- DCD-RC-308From The Divine Comedy (1950)
He married Beatrice Lancia, the daughter of Provenzan Salvani (see Canto xi ) and died at a great age in 1293.—Federico Tignoso: a nobleman of Rimini, noted for his generosity, who appears to have lived in the first hal…
- WBV-RC-151From What Are Biblical Values? (2019)
Hunt, Lynn. Inventing Human Rights: A History . New York: Norton, 2007. Ishay, Micheline R. The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Jack…
- SSCT-RC-292From From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity (2013)
12 . For this argument, see Harper, “Porneia ;” F. Hauck and S. Schulz, “π ό ρ ν η , κ τ λ ,” TDNT 6:579–595; BDAG, “π ο ρ ν ε ί α ,” 854–855; Fitzmeyer, First Corinthians, 233, 255, 279; Deming, Paul on Marriage and Ce…
- QS-RC-035From Quiet (2012)
Salesmanship as a Virtue: Live with Tony Robbins “Are you excited?” cries a young woman named Stacy as I hand her my registration forms. Her honeyed voice rises into one big exclamation point. I nod and smile as brightl…
- GC-RC-344From Going Clear (2013)
95 “James Dean of the occult”: Hugh B. Urban, “The Occult Roots of Scientology? L. Ron Hubbard, Aleister Crowley, and the Origins of a Controversial New Religion,” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent R…
- HCC-RC-4089From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
§ 73. The Free-will Controversy. 1524–1527. See Literature in § 73. After halting some time between approval and disapproval, Erasmus found it impossible to keep aloof from the irrepressible conflict. Provoked by Hutten…
- STAC-RC-14362From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
I answer that, The abodes of souls are distinguished according to the souls’ various states. Now the soul united to a mortal body is in the state of meriting, while the soul separated from the body is in the state of re…
- STAC-RC-3504From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
388. Now from the fact that the infinite is as a being in potency, not only does it follow that the infinite is contained and does not contain, but two other conclusions also follow. One is that the infinite, as such, i…
- AQ22-RC-14188From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 3: One due circumstance does not suffice to make a good act, and consequently it does not follow that, no matter how one use one’s own property, the use is good, but when one uses it as one ought acco…
- IHBD-RC-452From Introduction to the Hebrew Bible and Deutero-Canonical Books (2018)
Symbolic Actions In 3:22-23 Ezekiel has another encounter with the glory of the Lord. On this occasion he is told to perform a series of symbolic actions. During this period, the prophet is dumb except when he is impell…
- STAC-RC-5574From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
2. Again, it is said in 2 De Anima, text 49, that each thing should be denominated by what is most prominent in it. Now the remission of sins is brought about primarily by faith, according to Acts 15:9; “ purifying thei…
- BSES-RC-059From The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (2008)
underprivileged status to the body which was simply a machine. To some extent Foucault reversed this situation by denying any centrality to subjectivity (the thinking, Cartesian subject) and by treating the body as the …
- CTHD-RC-030From The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Vol. 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700) (1984)
Ott. Fach. Paen.Med. Pasc. Aug. Pens. Poss.com. Proh.gr. Prov. Pasch. Patav./wst. Paul.III. Init. Paul. IV. Luth.haer. Paul.V.Form. Pch. Def. Ep. Resp. Per.TW. Perf.am. Pet. Fam. Ign. Ot.rel. Seer. Sen. Petr.Aur. Comm. …
- STAC-RC-3747From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
878. The third argument is at (672) and is this: Since motion is always in a period of time and never in a “ now ” , and since all time is divisible, as was shown above, then in every time in which something is . moved,…
- AQ22-RC-12899From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 2: This reason is based on fear in so far as it regards the evil object. Reply to Objection 3: Perfect charity casts out servile fear, which principally regards punishment. But this kind of fear was n…
- AK-RC-631From Anna Karenina (1877)
Levin was standing rather far off. A nobleman breathing heavily and hoarsely at his side, and another whose thick boots were creaking, prevented him from hearing distinctly. He could only hear the soft voice of the mars…
- STAC-RC-3918From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
That a heavenly body has no potency to non-existence happens, he says, because a heavenly body is not composed of matter and form as though of potency and act. Rather, says he, such a body is matter existing in act, whi…
- DMBT-RC-070From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)
According to the Tupi-Guarani of western Brazil, their god Monan was so vexed with their evil ways that he tried to destroy them with fire, but a great magician, Irin-Magé, extinguished it with a deluge of water. The Qu…
- DB-RC-898From The Decameron (1353)
It could be argued that the narrator’s light-hearted attitude towards his narrative indicates that this, the most problematical story in the whole of the Decameron, should be read rather as an elaborate parable on obedi…
- STAC-RC-10874From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Secondly, a change in the natural law may be understood by way of subtraction, so that what previously was according to the natural law, ceases to be so. In this sense, the natural law is altogether unchangeable in its …