Self and Emotional Life Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

Name: Self and Emotional Life Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
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ISBN: 9780231158312

ISBN-10: 0231158319

ISBN-13: 9780231158312

Edition: 2013

Authors: Adrian Johnston, Catherine Malabou

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Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou defy theoretical humanities' deeply-entrenched resistance to engagements with the life sciences. Rather than treat biology and its branches as hopelessly reductive and politically suspect, they view recent advances in neurobiology and its adjacent scientific fields as providing crucial catalysts to a radical rethinking of subjectivity.Merging three distinct disciplines -- European philosophy from Descartes to the present, Freudian-Lacanian psychoanalysis, and affective neuroscience -- Johnston and Malabou triangulate the emotional life of affective subjects as conceptualized in philosophy and psychoanalysis with neuroscience. Their experiments yield…

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List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.946



Preface: From Nonfeeling to Misfeeling-Affects Between Trauma and the Unconscious


Acknowledgments



Go Wonder: Subjectivity and Affects in Neurobiological Times



Introduction: From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain



What Does "of" Mean in Descartes's Expression, "The Passions of the Soul"?



A "Self-Touching You": Derrida and Descartes



The Neural Self: Damasio Meets Descartes



Affects are Always Affects of Essence: Book 3 of Spinoza's Ethics



The Face and the Close-Up: Deleuze's Spinozist Approach to Descartes



Damasio as a Reader of Spinoza



On Neural Plasticity, Trauma, and the Loss of Affects


Conclusion



Misfelt Feelings: Unconscious Affect Between Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, and Philosophy




Guilt and the Feel of Feeling: Toward a New Conception of Affects



Feeling without Feeling: Freud and the Unresolved Problem of Unconscious Guilt



Affects, Emotions, and Feelings: Freud's Metapsychologies of Affective Life



From Signifiers to Jouis-Sens: Lacan's Senti-Ments and Affectuations



Emotional Life After Lacan: From Psychoanalysis to the Neurosciences



Affects Are Signifiers: The Infinite Judgment of a Lacanian Affective Neuroscience


Postface: The Paradoxes of the Principle of Constancy


Notes


Index