Self and emotional life : philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience / Adrian Johnston, Catherine Malabou ; cover design, Lisa Hamm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Adrian, 1974- author.

Malabou, Catherine, author.

Contributor:

Hamm, Lisa, designer.

Series:

Insurrections.

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Self.

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Neurosciences.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (523 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Chichester, England : Columbia University Press, 2013.

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Half title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: From Nonfeeling to Misfeeling-Affects Between Trauma and the Unconscious; Acknowledgments; Part I. Go Wonder: Subjectivity and Affects in Neurobiological Times; Introduction: From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain; 1. What Does "of" Mean in Descartes's Expression, "The Passions of the Soul"?; 2. A "Self-Touching You": Derrida and Descartes; 3. The Neural Self: Damasio Meets Descartes; 4. Affects Are Always Affects of Essence: Book 3 of Spinoza's Ethics

5. The Face and the Close-Up: Deleuze's Spinozist Approach to Descartes6. Damasio as a Reader of Spinoza; 7. On Neural Plasticity, Trauma, and the Loss of Affects; Conclusion; Part II. Misfelt Feelings: Unconscious Affect Between Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, and Philosophy; 8. Guilt and the Feel of Feeling: Toward a New Conception of Affects; 9. Feeling Without Feeling: Freud and the Unresolved Problem of Unconscious Guilt; 10. Affects, Emotions, and Feelings: Freud's Metapsychologies of Affective Life; 11. From Signifiers to Jouis-Sens: Lacan's Senti-ments and Affectuations

12. Emotional Life After Lacan: From Psychoanalysis to the Neurosciences13. Affects are Signifiers: The Infinite Judgment of a Lacanian Affective Neuroscience; Postface: The Paradoxes of the Principle of Constancy; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231535182

023153518X

OCLC:

841909815