Releasing Affects or the Release from Affects. The Case of Freud and Spinoza
Releasing Affects or the Release from Affects. The Case of Freud and Spinoza
Author(s): Szymon WróbelSubject(s): Early Modern Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Naučno udruženje Sociološki diskurs
Keywords: active state; conatus; contrary affect; death drive; façade formations; general indifference; madness; resolution; sustainability;
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author is questioning the very concept of “indifference of thinking”. The author also asks: in what sense thinking leads to “overall indifference”? What, indeed, is indifference? Carefully reading the philosophical texts on affects, mainly Spinoza, Freud, Bergson and Deleuze, the author argues, that indifference is not a kind of non-affection, beside-affection, post-affection, but rather, it is a trace of affect – just as cinders are remnants of fire. Indifference is not abnegation either, which is a kind of statement that we could not care less. On the contrary, it is in indifference where we find a profound commitment to bringing back the things of this world to their natural position.
Journal: Sociološki diskurs
- Issue Year: 8/2018
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 5-22
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English