Homeostasis and Autoaffection
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.56
3. > A New Approach to the Self
Theoretical move: The passage deploys Damasio's neuroscientific account of a tripartite self (protoself, core self, autobiographical self) to reframe autoaffection as a nonconscious, homeostatic biological process, thereby challenging classical subject-centered accounts of consciousness and opening a comparison with Freudian ignorance of the psyche's own extension.
autoaffection doesn't designate a conscious, subjective 'self-touching' procedure; on the contrary, it characterizes the nonconscious homeostatic processes that maintain the living organism.