Deleuzian Autoaffection
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.70
5. > The Face and the Close -Up
Theoretical move: Deleuze's Spinozist reading of Descartes reframes autoaffection not as subjective self-touching (contra Derrida) but as a spatial, surface-creating phenomenon — a "plane of immanence" or "map" — where the face becomes the privileged site of inscription, transforming passionate affect into impersonal intensity and anticipating the cinematic close-up.
autoaffection does not arouse any feeling, but is comparable to an artistic creation, as if the ideal solicitation were painting or imaging itself