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  title info:
    title: Self and emotional life
    sub title: philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience
  name:
    name part: Johnston, Adrian
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Malabou, Catherine.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 different outcomes. Johnston finds psychoanalysis and neurobiology have the potential to enrich each other, though affective neuroscience demands a reconsideration of whether affects can be unconscious. Investigating this vexed issue has profound implications for theoretical and practical analysis, as well as philosophical understandings of the emotions. Malabou believes scientific explorations of the brain seriously problematize established notions of affective subjectivity in Continental philosophy and Freudian-Lacanian analysis. She confronts philosophy and psychoanalysis with something neither field has seriously considered: the concept of wonder and the cold, disturbing visage of those who have been affected by disease or injury, such that they are no longer affected emotionally. At stake in this exchange are some of philosophy's most important claims concerning the relationship between the subjective mind and the objective body, the structures and dynamics of the unconscious dimensions of mental life, the role emotion plays in making us human, and the functional differences between philosophy and science.
  table of contents: Preface: From nonfeeling to misfeeling--affects between trauma and the unconscious -- Introduction: From the passionate soul to the emotional brain -- What does "of" mean in the 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 -- 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.
  note: Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-257) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Emotions
  subject:
    topic: Self
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis and philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Ego
  subject:
    topic: Emotions
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalytic Theory
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Emotions
  subject:
    topic: Neurosciences
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalysis and philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Self
  subject:
    topic: Selbst
  subject:
    topic: Gefühl
  subject:
    topic: Philosophie
  subject:
    topic: Psychoanalyse
  subject:
    topic: Neurowissenschaften
  classification: BF531 .J64 2013
  classification: 128/.2
  classification: 2013 F-631
  classification: WM 460.5.E3
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 121005
    record change date: 20180214131002.0
    record identifier: in00003887567
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng