Zone of Indetermination
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou
5. > Conclusion > In his lectures on Spinoza, Deleuze affirms:
Theoretical move: This passage, a quotation from Deleuze on Spinoza via literary and artistic examples, argues that affect names a zone of indetermination prior to natural differentiation — a nonhuman becoming that dissolves fixed identities — functioning here as a theoretical counterpoint or interlocutor for the broader argument about self and emotional life.
It is a zone of indetermination, of indiscernability, as if things, beasts and persons . . . endlessly reached that point that immediately precedes their natural differenciation.