Self and emotional life : philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience /
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 scientifi...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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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.