Neuronal Unconscious
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.249
13. > The Paradoxes of the Principle of Constancy > Psychoanalysis: Are There Unconscious Feelings?
Theoretical move: Malabou argues that the neurobiological (Damasian) unconscious and the Freudian unconscious are structurally opposed: the former is temporal, destructible, and anonymous (cerebral autoaffection constituting finitude without self-knowledge), while the latter is timeless and 'immortal'—yet this very contrast, especially the potential loss of affect, opens a new chapter in the theory of the death drive.
It is thus possible to measure the entire distance that separates the neuronal unconscious from the unconscious as traditionally defined. The former merges in a certain fashion with the passage of time, whereas the latter ignores time.