Summary
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The study of emotion tends to breach traditional academic boundaries and binary lingustics. It requires multi-modal perspectives and the suspension of dualistic conventions to appreciate its complexity.
This book analyses historical, philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, post-structural, and technological perspectives of emotion that it argues are important for a viable social psychology of emotion. It begins with early ancient philosophical conceptualisations of pathos and ends with analytical discussions of the transmission of affect which permeate the digital revolution.
It is essential reading for upper level students and researchers of emotion in psychology, sociology, psychosocial studies and across the social sciences.
Affect Theory: Post-Structuralist Accounts
Affect Theory: Post-Structuralist Accounts
Key Aims
In this chapter we discuss some of the post-structural developments of emotion studies known as ‘affect theories’. In doing so we will include:
- A view of Freud's and later Tomkins’ affect theories
- A discussion of Deleuze's process of philosophy and affect
- A critical review of Massumi's notions of affect
- A consideration of the place of affect in subjectivity and social psychology
Introduction
What is post-structuralism? Let us briefly remind ourselves. It can be described as a body of work which was essentially a response to structuralism. Structuralism viewed human culture as being understood through the signs and symbols which structure it. Structuralists tend to reject notions of human freedom, autonomy and free will, instead there is a focus on the ways that human ...
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