““Affective amplification does not simply turn up the volume on what is already there, but points to the presence of something “separate.” Tomkins places a particular emphasis on this difference-throughamplification when discussing magnification. As he notes, “Scenes are magnified not by repetition, but by repetition with a difference. . . . Sheer repetition of experience characteristically evokes adaptation, which attenuates, rather than magnifies, the connected scenes””
