Protoaffective Formation
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.136
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: Johnston argues that Freud's 1915 metapsychology of affect is internally contradictory: while Freud formally denies the existence of unconscious affects (reducing them to protoaffective ideational potentials), his own tripartite German terminology (Affekte/Gefühle/Empfindungen) and the logic of "true/false connections" between affect and Vorstellung open conceptual space for a coherent theory of unconscious or "misfelt" affects that Lacan's sweeping denial forecloses prematurely.
These repressed constellations within the unconscious are, strictly speaking, protoaffective rather than affective per se.