Affect (Cartesian Passion)
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.40
1. > General Presentation of *The Passions of the Soul* > Passions "in" the Soul Are Consequences of Bodily Movements
Theoretical move: The passage expounds Descartes's tripartite taxonomy of passions in *The Passions of the Soul*, distinguishing passions "in" the soul (effects of bodily movement, either perceptual or motor) from passions "of" the soul proper (a third kind of perception caused, maintained, and strengthened by movements of the animal spirits), thereby establishing a Cartesian framework of soul-passivity and soul-activity that the broader argument will use as a foil for psychoanalytic accounts of affect and embodiment.
We may define them generally as those perceptions, sensations or emotions of the soul which we refer particularly to it, and which are caused, maintained and strengthened by some movements of the spirits.