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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
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Affective body

1. Does "affective body" mean "emotional body"?


2. Does "early emotional states of being" mean "infantile emotions of being"?


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The value of Nixon’s approach is that she rescues a psychoanalytic theory which was seen as regressive, even biologically predetermined, and shows how in a contemporary context it can provide a valuable critique of the over-emphasis on language and thereby allow for a means of reconsidering the materiality of art objects, which relate to the affective body and early emotional states of being.

  

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catttt 1. Does "affective body" mean "emotional body"? Something like that.

— Anonymous

  • catttt 1.
  • Does "affective body" mean "emotional body"?
  • Something like that.
  • "Affect", noun, is a term of art from psychology having to do with our reactions and how we show them.
  • catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does "affective body" mean "emotional body"?

Something like that. "Affect", noun, is a term of art from psychology having to do with our reactions and how we show them.

catttt2. Does "early emotional states of being" mean "infantile emotions of being"?

"Emotions of being" does not seem to mean anything. A

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