Affect and the Unconscious
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.11
Self > Preface
Theoretical move: The passage establishes a programmatic argument that a genuinely materialist psychoanalysis must engage with the life sciences, and proposes a four-category taxonomy (theorizable/treatable) to map the limits and possibilities of Freudian-Lacanian analysis when confronted with neuroscientific findings, particularly neuropathologies—defending the position that such cases belong to a 'theorizable but not treatable' category rather than being wholly outside analytic reach.
The question of whether (and, if so, in what sense[s]) affects can be unconscious strictly speaking persistently perturbed Sigmund Freud throughout his career and has remained an unresolved controversy in the worlds of psychoanalysis ever since.