Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture)

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. 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. Adrian Johnston, Catherine Malabou. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [225]-257) And Index. 2219_009......Page 17 2219_014......Page 27 2219_018......Page 35 2219_022......Page 43 2219_025......Page 49 2219_028......Page 55 2219_031......Page 61 2219_034......Page 67 2219_037......Page 73 2219_040......Page 79 2219_042......Page 83 2219_044......Page 87 2219_046......Page 91 2219_049......Page 97 2219_052......Page 103 2219_054......Page 107 2219_056......Page 111 2219_058......Page 115 2219_060......Page 119 2219_063......Page 125 2219_066......Page 131 2219_069......Page 137 2219_072......Page 143 2219_075......Page 149 2219_078......Page 155 2219_081......Page 161 2219_084......Page 167 2219_087......Page 173 2219_090......Page 179 2219_093......Page 185 2219_096......Page 191 2219_099......Page 197 2219_102......Page 203 2219_105......Page 209 2219_108......Page 215 2219_111......Page 221 2219_113......Page 225 2219_115......Page 229 2219_117......Page 233 2219_119......Page 237 2219_121......Page 241 2219_123......Page 245 2219_125......Page 249 2219_128......Page 255 2219_131......Page 261 2219_134......Page 267 2219_137......Page 273 2219_140......Page 279 2219_143......Page 285 2219_146......Page 291 2219_150......Page 299