Neural Death Drive
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.97
5. > Conclusion > Damasio establishes a distinction between pain and emotion caused by pain:
Theoretical move: The passage argues that neurobiology's discovery of a fully destructible, brain-based unconscious demands a new materialism that radicalizes the concepts of heteroaffection, the death drive, and the nonhuman — moving Continental philosophy beyond its metaphysical residues by confronting the brain as the site of psychic lesions, neural death drives, and a transparent self-model that is process rather than being.
what we should call a new state of mind of the psyche, determined by a neural death drive, indifferent to love or wonder, indifferent even to its own power of destruction or its own aggressiveness.