Reflexive Self-Consciousness
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.236
13. > Affects Are Si gnifier s
Theoretical move: The passage argues that 'affect' should be retained as a theoretical term precisely because it names the uniquely human desynchronizations between emotions and feelings produced by signifying subjection — a negativity that is ontological rather than merely epistemological — thereby opening a terrain for Lacanian-neuroscientific collaboration.
Reflexive self-consciousness, thanks to the reflexivity of feeling itself, never will seize upon solid guarantees vouching for the ultimate, final truths of why it feels, how it feels, or even what it feels.