Neural Plasticity
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Where it appears in the corpus (2)
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#01
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.52
3. > The Neural Self
Theoretical move: The passage argues that contemporary neurobiology, by positing a plastic, distributed, and non-fixed neural substrate for subjectivity, structurally reopens Freud's abandoned 1895 "Project" and creates the conditions for a neuro-psychoanalytic rapprochement—one in which the self is neither a static essence nor a consciously self-present structure, but an open, affect-modifiable formation whose damage is simultaneously damage to subjectivity itself.
neural subjectivity is a plastic structure in which the emotional dimension plays a major role.
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#02
Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.226
13. > Affects Are Si gnifier s
Theoretical move: The passage argues that a properly formulated neuro-psychoanalysis must perform a double move: grounding the denaturalized speaking subject (parlêtre/$) in naturalist accounts of neural plasticity while simultaneously using Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology to theorize subjects whose genesis exceeds bare organic anatomy — thereby resisting both reductive scientism and an antinaturalist 'laicized soul' dualism.
fuzzy and imprecise affect-vocabularies literally bedding down in the brain itself, sculpting and rewiring this groundless neural ground