Cartesian Soul-Body Problem
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.41
1. > General Presentation of *The Passions of the Soul* > Passions of the Soul Are Related to the Soul Alone
Theoretical move: By reading Descartes's account of the passions of the soul, the passage argues that the pineal gland figures a paradoxical "soul's body" — a material locus of psychosomatic union that is simultaneously incarnated and abstract, raising the question of whether the brain is the soul's alter ego in self-relation or a genuine alterity that breaches the subject's self-determination.
We must then admit that the soul has its own body, the pineal gland, which is located in the brain. And, the passions of the soul are provoked by this particular soul's body.