Syncope
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.49
1. > A "Self-Touchin g You " > Syncope
Theoretical move: Drawing on Derrida's reading of Nancy, the passage argues that a nonmetaphysical sense of touch is constitutively interrupted—structured by syncope, discontinuity, and heteroaffection—such that self-touching is always already the touching of an other, making originary self-presence impossible and grounding all particular affects in an irreducible alterity.
What it first recalls is sharing, parting, partitioning, and discontinuity, interruption, cæsura—in a word, syncope.