Misfelt Feeling
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.132
10. > F r e u d 's M e ta p s y c h o l o g i e s of Affective Life
Theoretical move: By tracing Freud's metapsychological treatment of the affect/idea (Affekt/Vorstellung) distinction from 1894 to 1915, the passage argues that Freud's own texts — against their standard reading — open the door to the theoretical possibility of unconscious affects and 'misfelt feelings,' a concept Johnston proposes to resolve the metapsychological ambiguity between affect as necessarily conscious and affect as subject to defensive displacement.
it may happen that an affective or emotional impulse is perceived but misconstrued … In essence, this is an articulation of nothing other than the concept of misfelt feelings (i.e., affective or emotional phenomena that are 'perceived but misconstrued') I'm proposing here.