Loss of Affects
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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.
a marked alteration of the ability to experience feelings... The patients who suffer from this syndrome lose any ability to wonder about anything. The feeling of wonder itself has disappeared from both their body and their mind.