Wonder (Admiratio)
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.35
Part I. > Introduction > The Issue of Wonder
Theoretical move: The passage argues that wonder (*admiratio*) occupies a structurally ambiguous position between autoaffection and heteroaffection, and that this ambiguity makes it a privileged site for the philosophical, psychoanalytic, and neurobiological redefinition of subjectivity — with the neurobiological possibility of the total *loss* of wonder representing the one deconstruction of subjectivity that philosophy and psychoanalysis have not yet theorized.
wonder may be seen as the structure of autoaffection: the subject touching itself as if it were a surprising other. Wonder is the philosophical affect as such.