Transcendental Locus
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.48
1. > A "Self-Touchin g You " > A Nonspatial Space
Theoretical move: The passage traces Derrida's shift from logocentrism to "haptocentrism," using Descartes's pineal gland as the paradigmatic site of autoaffection—a nonspatial, ideal locus of the soul's self-touching—and argues that this structure of self-differentiation (activity/passivity) is the precursor of Kantian apperception, raising the question of whether autoaffection can be interrupted or breached.
The pineal gland can thus be characterized as a transcendental locus for the soul's self-differenciation, a prefiguration of the Kantian distinction between apperception and the empirical subject.