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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.
In this general context, wonder can only mean the way in which the soul is touched or moved by itself, a kind of emotion of the self for itself.