Somatic Markers
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.33
Part I. > Introduction > Affects and Autoaffection: Definitions
Theoretical move: The passage establishes a conceptual genealogy of *affect* (Spinoza/Deleuze) and *autoaffection* (Kant/Heidegger) in order to pose the question of whether affects can exist without a pre-given subject, staging a confrontation between philosophical autoaffection and neurobiological heteroaffection/non-affection as rival models of subjectivity and emotion.
Damasio, by elaborating the theory of 'somatic markers,' stresses the central importance of emotions in neural regulation. Elementary mechanisms of thought or of reasoning are deeply linked with emotional processes.