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Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

Adrian Johnston

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Description for Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience Hardback. Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: GTR; HPM; JMAF; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
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, ... Read more

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Hardback

Publication date

2013

Publisher

Columbia University Press United States

Number of pages

304

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New

Series

Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

Number of Pages

304

Place of Publication

New York, United States

ISBN

9780231158305

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V9780231158305

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About Adrian Johnston

Adrian Johnston is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and an assistant teaching analyst at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta. He is the author of Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive; Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity; and Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence ... Read more

Reviews for Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

Self and Emotional Life is a timely and wholly original intervention into one of the most debated questions of recent years: the place of the affects in psychoanalytic, neuroscientific, and philosophical accounts of the subject. It is doubly valuable in being authored by two scholars of the stature of Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou, philosophers whose range and depth of ... Read moreerudition in recent and emerging scholarship in the neurosciences (especially work on the 'emotional brain') and in clinical psychoanalysis seem to be without peer among scholars working at this intersection today.
Tracy McNulty, Cornell University While neuroscientists joyfully proclaim the death of philosophy and psychoanalysis, Self and Emotional Life enacts the necessary countermove. It conclusively demonstrates, from a strict materialist standpoint, how brain sciences cannot account for the unconscious processes discovered by Freud and how they remain entangled in a cobweb of their own philosophical presuppositions. The book's subtitle could have been 'prolegomena to any future relationship between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and neurosciences'-which is why it should be read by everyone in these fields.
Slavoj Zizek, author of Living in the End I have often been surprised by how Continental philosophy and psychoanalysis has managed to ignore biology and at times even reject it. It made no sense to me, and it clearly makes no sense to Johnston and Malabou, who embrace neurobiology and are enriched by it. Their book makes for valuable and often pleasurable reading.
Antonio Damasio, author of Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain This book flows from the obvious conviction that a philosophy of subjectivity simply cannot ignore the body and must engage with today's biological sciences. The authors' conviction that the link between the subject and the body is best theorized in relation to affect is perhaps less obvious to some, but surely equally correct. It is no surprise, then, that their book touches on many of the deepest questions confronting the mental sciences of our time. It will provoke much disputation-even outrage-yet it focuses our attention on just the right questions.
Mark Solms, author of The Brain and the Inner World: An Introduction to the Neuroscience of the Subjective Experience a major contribution to the important materialist turn in continental philosophy.
John Protevi Notre Dame Philosophical Review ... Postulating common ground between [neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and philosophy], and a language for mutual understanding, is the uncommon achievement of Johnston's and Malabou's book. Irish Left Review Show Less

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