Home > Affect

In abnormal psychology, affect can also refer to emotional expressiveness. Flat affect , constricted affect or restricted affect is a lack of emotional expression. Inappropriate affect or incongruous affect is a mismatch between experienced emotion and its expression. Labile affect is unstable display of emotion.

Although not the mainstream usage, psychologist Edward Titchener used the word 'affect' in more specific way, to refer to a pleasantness-unpleasantness dimension of feeling.

In everyday english usage and when used as a verb, affect concerns the influence of something on another person or object.

In literary aesthetics affect refers to the emotional sense created in the reader or receiver of a literary work. These affects may be broadly grouped by their mode of writing, and relationship with time. Catharsis the affect of dramatic completition of action in time. Kairosis the affect of novelA novel is a long or extended work of fiction written in prose, usually in the form of a story. It is longer and more complex than a short story or novella (ie. 40,000+ words), and it is not bound by the restrictions of plays and poetry. The word "novel"s whose characters become integrated in time. KenosisKenosis is a Greek word for emptiness, which is used as a theological term. As an ancient Greek word, κένωσις kénōsis means an "emptying", from κενός ken� the affect of lyricA Lyric (from the Greek) is a song sung with a lyre. Now, it is commonly used to mean a song of no defined length or structure. A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view. I would be the Lyric Ever on the lip, Rather than the poetryPoetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its use which creates a sense of emptyness and timelessness.

See also

• emotion
• mood