Zoē–Bios Inversion
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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience · Adrian Johnston & Catherine Malabou · p.218
13. > Affects Are Si gnifier s
Theoretical move: The passage argues that in human beings, brute "bare life" (zoē) is not a natural given preceding sociosymbolic life (bios) but is itself produced as an exception to default second-nature, and that this inversion—where cognitive-symbolic mediations partially but incompletely sublate raw emotional substrates—constitutes the specifically human condition, framing a neuro-psychoanalytic metapsychology of affect that is neither naturalist nor antinaturalist.
Such an inversion can be clarified further through reference to Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer... the reversal of the respective positions or roles of, so to speak, first and second natures