Failed Dialectic of Denaturalization
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.219
13. > Affects Are Si gnifier s
Theoretical move: The passage argues that in human beings, brute "bare life" (zoē) is not a natural given preceding sociosymbolic life (bios) but is itself produced as an exception to default second-nature, and that this inversion—where cognitive-symbolic mediations partially but incompletely sublate raw emotional substrates—constitutes the specifically human condition, framing a neuro-psychoanalytic metapsychology of affect that is neither naturalist nor antinaturalist.
a hypothesized failed dialectic of incomplete denaturalization that is constitutive of human forms of subjectivity