Affect-Signifier Disjunction
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.163
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Theoretical move: The passage argues that Lacan's metapsychology of affect—centered on the claim that affect is not repressed but "unfastened," displaced, and estranged from signifiers—constitutes a principled theoretical position rather than a neglect of affect; crucially, this entails that the parlêtre's affective life is irreducibly alienated from signifier-mediated subjectivity, such that there is no representational rapport between affect and signifier.
Lacan feels that, when it comes to the (non)relation between affects and signifiers in the speaking subjectivity of interest to psychoanalysis, it's inappropriate to imply that affects are accurately represented... by signifiers as ideational representations