Disaffectation
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.84
5. > On Neural Plasticit y, Trauma , and the Loss of Affects > The Loss of Affects
Theoretical move: By reading Damasio's neurological cases (Elliot, L, anosognosia/Anton's Syndrome) through the lens of affect theory, the passage argues that brain-damage-induced "disaffectation" represents an extreme deconstitution of subjectivity — the collapse of autoaffection into either heteroaffection or its complete abolition — thereby using neuroscientific evidence to radicalize and destabilize the philosophical concept of the subject.
Bit by bit the picture of this disaffectation came together... I never saw a tinge of emotion in my many hours of conversation with him: no sadness, no impatience, no frustration