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Bibliography

110 entries across 7 sections. Companion to the public introduction and the literature map. Verified DOIs and stable URLs where available; the per-emotion sub-bibliography for joy through trust populates after a follow-up digest extraction.

A. Historiography of Western emotion vocabulary

  • William M. Reddy (2001). The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions Cambridge University Press.

    Foundational for treating emotion-words as historical events. Introduces the *emotive* — an utterance that participates in producing the affective state it claims to describe. *Emotional regimes* organize cultures' sayable, unsayable, demanded, and punished feelings.

  • Barbara H. Rosenwein (2006). Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages Cornell University Press.

    Methodological refinement of Reddy. Civilizations contain multiple *emotional communities* (monasteries, courts, villages), each with valued affects. Historians recover not pure interiority but how feelings were articulated within communities.

  • Thomas Dixon (2003). From Passions to Emotions: The Creation of a Secular Psychological Category Cambridge University Press.

    Genealogy of the master category itself. *Emotion* arrived in English moral psychology in the 19th c., displacing *passions*, *affections*, *sentiments*. Reorganized the conceptual map from theological to scientific/observational.

  • Peter N. Stearns (1994). American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style New York University Press.

    Documents the 20th-c. US shift from Victorian expressiveness toward controlled coolness (1920s–1960s). With Carol Stearns introduced *emotionology* — the social standards governing what people ought to feel.

  • Kenneth S. Kendler (2017). The Genealogy of Major Depression: Symptoms and Signs of Melancholia from 1880 to 1900. Molecular Psychiatry, 22(11), 1539–1553.

    Tracks the modern reconfiguration of melancholia as depression: from disorder of judgment with sadness as an accompaniment to disorder of mood. DOI TBV.

  • Adele Lazikani (2018). Cultivating the Heart: Feeling and Emotion in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Religious Texts University of Wales Press.

    Medieval theological vocabulary of feeling. Shows that *acedia*, *tristitia*, and *desperatio* were distinct categories generated over centuries of Christian reflection, increasingly indistinguishable in modern translation.

  • Svetlana Boym (2001). The Future of Nostalgia Basic Books.

    Canonical distinction between *reflective* and *restorative* nostalgia. Documents the shift from place to time as the object of nostalgic longing.

  • Susan J. Matt (2011). Homesickness: An American History Oxford University Press.

    Traces the loss of homesickness as a serious adult emotion in modern American discourse.

  • Ruth Leys (2000). Trauma: A Genealogy University of Chicago Press.

    Reconstructs the longer conceptual lineage of trauma through hysteria, war neurosis, and psychoanalysis. Resists the claim that PTSD is a timeless truth modern psychiatry merely got around to noticing.

  • Allan Young (1995). The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Princeton University Press.

    Argues PTSD is inseparable from the diagnostic procedures, therapeutic scripts, and institutional supports that make it visible — not merely descriptive of a pre-existing condition.

  • Ruth Leys (2011). The Turn to Affect: A Critique. Critical Inquiry, 37(3), 434–472.

    Influential critique of Massumi-lineage affect theory. Argues that privileging preconscious intensity over recognized emotion makes historical evidence harder to handle and undermines representational analysis.

  • Kenneth J. Doka (1989). Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrow Lexington Books.

    Names losses that lacked ritual recognition (death of ex-partner, abortion, stigmatized relationship, pet). Once named, a grief category became publicly speakable.

  • Glenn Albrecht (2005). `Solastalgia': A New Concept in Health and Identity. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, 3, 41–55.

    Coined *solastalgia* — distress over environmental destruction while remaining at home. Subsequent uptake in ecological-grief literature.

  • Ashlee Cunsolo & Neville R. Ellis (2018). Ecological Grief as a Mental Health Response to Climate Change-Related Loss. Nature Climate Change, 8(4), 275–281. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0092-2
  • Eva Illouz (2008). Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help University of California Press.

    Therapeutic discourse as central to modern identity. Argues that self-help saturates American culture from the clinic to mass media.

  • Eva Illouz (2007). Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism Polity.

    The mesh of therapeutic speech with workplaces, consumer culture, media, dating, managerial norms. Companion to *Saving the Modern Soul*.

  • Frank Furedi (2004). Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age Routledge.

    Argues that vulnerability has become a core feature of personhood in late-20th-c. emotional culture.

  • Christopher Lane (2007). Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness Yale University Press.

    Case study of medicalization. Documents how ordinary shyness was pathologized into social anxiety disorder through DSM-era institutional and pharmaceutical pathways.

  • Allan V. Horwitz (2013). Anxiety: A Short History Johns Hopkins University Press.

    Historical synthesis on anxiety as named diagnosis. Complements the Reddy/Rosenwein/Dixon/Stearns historiographic spine for a specific emotion.

  • Olivia Laing (2016). The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone Picador.

    Literary witness to modern urban loneliness. Atmosphere of crowded aloneness, not strict taxonomy.

  • Lars Svendsen (2005). A Philosophy of Boredom Reaktion Books.

    Existential boredom as crisis of meaning, not lack of stimulation. Grounded in Heidegger's account of profound boredom.

B. Basic-emotion / constructionist / appraisal / affect-theory debate

  • Paul Ekman (1992). An Argument for Basic Emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 6(3–4), 169–200. doi:10.1080/02699939208411068
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett (2017). How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

    Constructionist program: emotions as context-sensitive products assembled in real time from core affect, conceptual knowledge, and cultural learning.

  • Antonio R. Damasio (1999). The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Harcourt.
  • Antonio R. Damasio (2003). Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain Harcourt.
  • Richard S. Lazarus (1991). Emotion and Adaptation Oxford University Press.

    Cognitive-appraisal foundation. Emotions arise from evaluations of events relative to goals, beliefs, norms.

  • Nico H. Frijda (1986). The Emotions Cambridge University Press.

    Companion to Lazarus in the appraisal tradition. *Action tendencies* as the bridge between appraisal and behavior.

  • Andrew Ortony, Gerald L. Clore, & Allan Collins (1988). The Cognitive Structure of Emotions Cambridge University Press.

    The OCC model — formal taxonomy of emotion types based on appraisals of events, agents, and objects.

  • Brian Massumi (2002). Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation Duke University Press.

    Affect as preconscious intensity prior to recognized emotion. Centerpiece of the *turn to affect* Leys (2011) critiques.

  • Lauren Berlant (2011). Cruel Optimism Duke University Press.

    Tracks public moods and attachments organizing life under precarity. Distinct from Massumi-lineage affect theory.

  • Joseph LeDoux (2015). Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety Viking.
  • Joseph E. LeDoux & Daniel S. Pine (2016). Using Neuroscience to Help Understand Fear and Anxiety: A Two-System Framework. American Journal of Psychiatry, 173(11), 1083–1093. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2016.16030353

C. Cross-cultural emotion ethnography

  • Catherine A. Lutz (1988). Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory University of Chicago Press.

    Foundational anti-essentialist ethnography. Ifaluk emotion vocabulary distributes across moral and relational territory in ways that don't map onto Anglocentric primaries.

  • Robert I. Levy (1973). Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands University of Chicago Press.

    Hypocognition thesis: cultures with fewer names for some feelings tend to elaborate them less in everyday discourse.

  • Jean L. Briggs (1970). Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family Harvard University Press.

    Utku Inuit display ethic emphasizing equanimity and the suppression of anger. Cross-cultural variation in emotion expression vs experience.

  • Unni Wikan (1990). Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living University of Chicago Press.
  • Anna Wierzbicka (1999). Emotions Across Languages and Cultures: Diversity and Universals Cambridge University Press.

    Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM): comparing emotion vocabularies without privileging any one language as the reference frame. Method based on ~60 universal semantic primes.

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Milkweed Editions.
  • Ailton Krenak (2020). Ideas to Postpone the End of the World House of Anansi Press.
  • Saba Mahmood (2005). Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Princeton University Press.

    Affective-anthropology methodology — how to document emotion when "how do you feel" doesn't translate.

  • Lila Abu-Lughod (1986). Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society University of California Press.

D. Religious + contemplative-tradition emotion mapping

  • Maria Heim (2017). Emotion in Classical Indian Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. link

    Soteriological grammar of *dukkha*, *sukha*, *karuṇā*; Buddhist treatment of object-directed mental states within a discipline of transformation.

  • Annemarie Schimmel (1975). Mystical Dimensions of Islam University of North Carolina Press.

    Sufi tradition's *maqamat* (stations) and *ahwal* (states); *fanāʾ* (annihilation in divine reality) / *baqāʾ* (subsistence in God).

  • Rudolf Otto (1923). The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational Oxford University Press.

    Originally *Das Heilige* (1917). The *mysterium tremendum et fascinans* — religious phenomenology of awe.

  • William James (1902). The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature Longmans, Green, and Co..

    Public domain. Classical first-person case-study approach to religious affect.

  • Abraham Joshua Heschel (1951). Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion Farrar, Straus and Young.

E. Per-emotion canonical anchors (anger through grief — digest's full-coverage subset)

  • Aristotle (1991). Rhetoric Penguin Classics.

    Originally 4th c. BCE. Book II, ch. 2 — foundational emotion-by-emotion treatment in classical rhetoric. Standard English translations include George Kennedy (Oxford UP, 1991).

  • Audre Lorde (1984). The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches.

    Originally a 1981 keynote at the National Women's Studies Association Conference. Anchor text for the "righteous + clarifying" reading of anger.

  • Martha C. Nussbaum (2016). Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice Oxford University Press.
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1928). De Ira / On Anger Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press.

    Originally 1st c. CE. Stoic moral philosophy of anger. Public domain. John W. Basore translation.

  • P. F. Strawson (1962). Freedom and Resentment. Proceedings of the British Academy, 48, 1–25.

    Reactive-attitudes approach to moral psychology of anger and resentment.

  • Carol Tavris (1989). Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion Touchstone.

    Originally 1983; rev. 1989. Cultural-psychology critique of the catharsis hypothesis.

  • Myisha Cherry (2021). The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle Oxford University Press.
  • S\oren Kierkegaard (1980). The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin Princeton University Press.

    Originally 1844 (*Begrebet Angest*). Reidar Thomte translation, ed. with introduction and notes by Albert B. Anderson.

  • Sigmund Freud (1959). Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety Norton.

    Originally 1926. Standard Edition vol. 20, James Strachey trans.

  • David H. Barlow (2002). Anxiety and Its Disorders: The Nature and Treatment of Anxiety and Panic Guilford Press.

    Originally 1988. Comprehensive clinical treatment.

  • Martin Heidegger (1962). Being and Time Harper & Row.

    Originally 1927 (*Sein und Zeit*). \S40 on anxiety as the disclosing mood. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson translation.

  • Rollo May (1996). The Meaning of Anxiety Norton.

    Originally 1950; revised 1977/1996. Existential psychology of anxiety.

  • Edmund Burke (1757). A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful R. and J. Dodsley.

    Public domain.

  • Dacher Keltner & Jonathan Haidt (2003). Approaching Awe, a Moral, Spiritual, and Aesthetic Emotion. Cognition and Emotion, 17(2), 297–314. doi:10.1080/02699930302297
  • Michelle N. Shiota, Dacher Keltner, & Amanda Mossman (2007). The Nature of Awe: Elicitors, Appraisals, and Effects on Self-Concept. Cognition and Emotion, 21(5), 944–963. doi:10.1080/02699930600923668
  • Jonathan Lear (2006). Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation Harvard University Press.
  • Peter Toohey (2011). Boredom: A Lively History Yale University Press.
  • William Ian Miller (1997). The Anatomy of Disgust Harvard University Press.

    Convergent across multiple emotion runs. Bridges contempt and disgust as moral and somatic categories.

  • Paul Rozin, Jonathan Haidt, & Clark R. McCauley (2008). Disgust (757–776). Guilford Press.
  • Th\'\ich Nh\^at H{\da}nh (1991). Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life Bantam Books.
  • Adam Phillips (1993). On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Unexamined Life Harvard University Press.
  • Lauren Berlant (1998). Intimacy: A Special Issue University of Chicago Press.

    Originally *Critical Inquiry* 24(2). Public-feeling work that grounds *Cruel Optimism*.

  • S\oren Kierkegaard (1980). The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening Princeton University Press.

    Originally 1849. Despair as the misrelation of the self to itself. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong translation.

  • Andrew Ortony, Gerald L. Clore, & Allan Collins (1988). Disappointment and Relief. The Cognitive Structure of Emotions.

    See ortony_1988_cognitive entry. Disappointment as appraisal of unfulfilled positive expectation.

  • Joseph LeDoux (1996). The Emotional Brain: The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life Simon & Schuster.
  • Joanna Bourke (2005). Fear: A Cultural History Virago.
  • Robert A. Emmons & Michael E. McCullough (2004). The Psychology of Gratitude Oxford University Press.
  • John Bowlby (1980). Attachment and Loss, Volume III: Loss, Sadness and Depression Basic Books.
  • J. William Worden (2018). Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner Springer Publishing Company.

    Originally 1982. Tasks-of-mourning model.

  • Margaret Stroebe & Henk Schut (2010). The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement: A Decade On (61(4), 273–289). doi:10.2190/OM.61.4.b
  • Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman, & Steven L. Nickman (1996). Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief Taylor & Francis.

F. Memoir + first-person archives (CONVERGENT canon from Prompt 2)

  • Mary Karr (1995). The Liars' Club: A Memoir Viking.
  • Mary Karr (2009). Lit: A Memoir Harper.
  • Marya Hornbacher (1997). Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia HarperCollins.
  • Jeanette Winterson (2011). Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Grove Press.
  • Paul Kalanithi (2016). When Breath Becomes Air Random House.
  • Lucy Grealy (1994). Autobiography of a Face Houghton Mifflin.
  • Audre Lorde (1980). The Cancer Journals Aunt Lute Books.
  • C. S. Lewis (1961). A Grief Observed Faber and Faber.
  • Joan Didion (2005). The Year of Magical Thinking Knopf.
  • Helen Macdonald (2014). H Is for Hawk Jonathan Cape.
  • Thomas Merton (1948). The Seven Storey Mountain Harcourt, Brace and Company.
  • C. S. Lewis (1955). Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Geoffrey Bles.

    Sehnsucht / longing as autobiographical structure.

  • Dorothy Day (1952). The Long Loneliness: An Autobiography Harper & Brothers.
  • James Baldwin (1955). Notes of a Native Son Beacon Press.
  • Alison Bechdel (2006). Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Houghton Mifflin.
  • Carmen Maria Machado (2019). In the Dream House: A Memoir Graywolf Press.

G. Therapy-transcript canon (Prompt 5 — Claude run)

  • Sigmund Freud (1905). Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (Dora)

    Standard Edition vol. 7. Public domain (US, pre-1928 publication).

  • Sigmund Freud (1918). From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (Wolf Man)

    Standard Edition vol. 17. Public domain.

  • Carl R. Rogers (1942). Counseling and Psychotherapy: Newer Concepts in Practice Houghton Mifflin.

    Pre-1964 US public domain (likely).

  • Carl R. Rogers (1961). On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy Houghton Mifflin.

    Already INGESTED in Vela corpus as OBP (323 chunks). Pre-1964 US public domain (likely).

  • Frederick S. Perls (1969). Gestalt Therapy Verbatim Real People Press.

    Verbatim transcripts of Perls's demonstrations. Status TBV.

  • Irvin D. Yalom (1989). Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy Basic Books.
  • Irvin D. Yalom (1999). Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy Basic Books.
  • Stephen Grosz (2013). The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves Norton.
  • Adam Phillips (1994). On Flirtation Harvard University Press.
  • Janet Malcolm (1981). Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession Knopf.
  • Christopher Bollas (1987). The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known Columbia University Press.
  • Patrick Casement (1985). On Learning from the Patient Tavistock.
  • Melanie Klein (1975). Envy and Gratitude and Other Works 1946–1963 Hogarth Press.
  • D. W. Winnicott (1971). Playing and Reality Tavistock.
  • Wilfred R. Bion (1962). Learning from Experience Heinemann.
  • John Bowlby (1969). Attachment and Loss, Volume I: Attachment Basic Books.
  • Heinz Kohut (1977). The Restoration of the Self International Universities Press.