CONTENTS

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

Acknowledgments

PART I.

GO WONDER: SUBJECTIVITY AND AFFECTS IN NEUROBIOLOGICAL TIMES

CATHERINE MALABOU

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 DESCARTES

6. 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

ADRIAN JOHNSTON

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 NEUROSCIENCES

13. AFFECTS ARE SIGNIFIERS: THE INFINITE JUDGMENT OF A LACANIAN AFFECTIVE NEUROSCIENCE

POSTFACE: THE PARADOXES OF THE PRINCIPLE OF CONSTANCY

Notes

Index