[Home | Tomkins Institute 1 The Tomkins Institute is dedicated to advancing the use of Silvan S. Tomkins's theory of affects and script theory. The site provides overviews of Tomkins theories on emotion and affective experience, access to unpublished works, videos of Tomkins related lectures, access to reading groups and community gatherings. Such offerings are intended to create a shared space for deepening the understanding and use of this world-view shattering theory about the most fundamental aspects of being human.]