Affect Theory
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou
13. > The Paradoxes of the Principle of Constancy
Theoretical move: The passage frames a novel interdisciplinary confrontation between psychoanalysis, neurobiology, and Continental philosophy, arguing that contemporary neuroscience's discovery of nonconscious, pre-cognitive affects demands a redefinition of psychic life and issues a challenge to both psychoanalysis and philosophy.
revealing new definitions of affects... the brain is their place of origin. This is why it is important, for the neurobiologists, to redefine the psyche according to this primordial emotionality.