Alterity
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.89
5. > Conclusion
Theoretical move: The passage concludes a study by arguing that affects cannot be grounded in originary autoaffection; instead, Derrida, Deleuze, and Damasio each radicalise a structure of heteroaffection that determines a distinct concept of alterity, a privileged metaphor, and a specific spatiality — with wonder serving as the ambivalent test-case affect that straddles the auto/hetero divide.
For Derrida, Deleuze, and Damasio as readers of Descartes and Spinoza, the approach to affects in general and wonder in particular, in its ambivalence, determine three things: first, a concept of alterity.