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
- EE-RC-010From The Erotic Engine (2011)
More than anything else, it was this phrase that made me want to pursue his ideas beyond what appeared in his published work. Though he is supposedly retired, he had just returned to Alaska after visiting several archae…
- AQ22-RC-9810From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
This error seems to have originated from two statements of the ancients. For those who first began to observe the nature of things, being unable to rise above their imagination, supposed that nothing but bodies existed.…
- HCC-RC-4199From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
But the Elector John Sigismund, who by travels and personal intercourse with Calvinistic princes and divines conceived a high regard for their superior Christian piety and courtesy, embraced the Reformed faith in 1606, …
- STAC-RC-7033From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
In creatures a likeness to this trinity appears in three ways. First as an effect reflects its cause; and in this way the principle of the whole Godhead, i.e. the Father, is represented by that which holds the first pla…
- STAC-RC-9878From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Whether in the state of innocence man would have acquired immortality by the tree of life?Objection 1: It would seem that the tree of life could not be the cause of immortality. For nothing can act beyond its own specie…
- AQ22-RC-4420From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
493. The first things which are said to be relative numerically are such, either without qualification, or in some definite relation to them, or to unity; as double is related to half as a definite number. And the multi…
- STAC-RC-3790From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
948. Then at (749) because he had said that we must consider the question of the differences of motion, i.e., whether motions differ specifically, he now inquires how specific differences may be taken in motions and in …
- CPW-RC-071From Composition & Photography: Working with Photography Using Design Concepts (2022)
Understand the importance of the vanishing point to your image, and to the way your viewers visually interpret the relationship of your image to the world, and to their overall sense of the reality of your work. Keeping…
- AQ22-RC-13423From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
And there is another descent whereby He descended “into the lower regions of the earth,” as is written Eph. 4:9; and this is local descent: hence this belongs to Christ according to the condition of human nature. Reply …
- BSO-RC-098From Boys & Sex (2020)
I admit, I sometimes struggle to understand a new generation’s approach to gender. Does it challenge or reinforce convention when we consider certain attitudes, qualities, ways of presenting to be “masculine” or “femini…
- AQ22-RC-8286From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Again. The higher the intellect the more it knows;—either a greater number of things, or at least more about the same things. Now the divine intellect surpasses every created intellect: and consequently it knows more th…
- DEME-RC-171From The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception (2017)
[arWM] Silvia, P. J. (2012) Human emotions and aesthetic experience: An overview of empirical aesthetics. In:Aesthetic science: Connecting minds, brains, and experience, ed. A. Shimamura & S. E. Palmer, pp. 250–75. Oxfo…
- STAC-RC-4971From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
2364. He shows by induction that change takes place only between the above-mentioned limits; for the limits of change admit of four possible combinations: first, when both limits are affirmative or positive terms, as wh…
- DMBT-RC-010From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)
Once free, an aspect of that intelligence that creates cosmic forms, creates biologic forms to complete its purpose, namely, the development of qualities. These forms through experience with the quantitative (environmen…
- HCCP-RC-2449From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
It is a solemn warning against the antinomian and licentious tendencies which revealed themselves between A.D. 60 and 70. Origen remarks that it is "of few lines, but rich in words of heavenly wisdom." The style is fres…
- HCCP-RC-3553From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Then the church historian Eusebius, in the name of the middle party, proposed an ancient Palestinian Confession, which was very similar to the Nicene, and acknowledged the divine nature of Christ in general biblical ter…
- HCCC-RC-861From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
*Theophile Roller (Protest.): Les Catacombes de Rome. Histoire de l’art et des croyances religieuses pendant les premiers siècles du Christianisme. Paris, 1879–1881, 2 vols. fol, 720 pages text and 100 excellent plates …
- SCP-RC-087From The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion (1967)
Mutatis mutandis , the process of mystification extends to the roles clustered in the institutions in question. In other words, the representation implied in every role is mysteriously endowed with the power to represen…
- AQ22-RC-9595From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Whether the completion of the Divine works ought to be ascribed to the seventh day?Objection 1: It would seem that the completion of the Divine works ought not to be ascribed to the seventh day. For all things that are …
- AQ22-RC-9731From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Reply to Objection 2: Judgment, as it were, concludes and terminates counsel. Now counsel is terminated, first, by the judgment of reason; secondly, by the acceptation of the appetite: whence the Philosopher (Ethic. iii…