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==Affect versus IdeaIntellect=====Sigmund Freud===
In [[Freud]]'s work, the term "[[affect]]" stands in opposition to the term "[[idea]]".
The opposition between the [[affect|affective]] and the [[affect|intellectual]] is one of the oldest themes in [[philosophy]], and made its way into [[Freud]]'s vocabulary via [[German]] [[psychology]].
On the one hand, [[psychoanalytic]] experience "is not that of an affective smoochy-woochy."<ref>{{S1}} p.55</ref>
<blockquote>"We are not dealing here with an intellectual dimension."<ref>{{S1}} p.274</ref></blockquote>
====Resistance====
The [[Lacan]]ian [[psychoanalyst]] must thus be aware of the ways in which both "affective smoochy-woochy" and intellectualisation can be [[resistance]]s to [[analysis]], [[imaginary]] [[lure]]s of the [[ego]].
[[Anxiety]] is the only [[affect]] that is not [[truth|deceptive]]. --
====Separate Realms====
[[Lacan]] is opposed to those [[analyst]]s who have taken the [[affect]]ive realm as primary, for the [[affect]]ive is not a separate realm opposed to the [[intellectual]].
<blockquote>"The affective is not like a special density which would escape an intellectual accounting. It is not to be found in a mythical beyond of the production of the symbol which would precede the discursive formulation."<ref>{{S1}} p.57</ref></blockquote>
However, he rejects accusations of neglecting the role of [[affect]], pointing to the fact that a whole year of the [[seminar]] is dedicated precisely to discussing [[anxiety]].<ref>Lacan, 1973a: {{TV}} p. 38</ref>
He insists on the relationship of [[affect]] to the [[symbolic]] [[order]]; [[affect]] means that the [[subject]] is affected by his relation with the [[Other]].
He argues that [[affect]]s are not [[signifier]]s but [[signal]]s (,<ref>{{S7, }} p. 102-3), </ref> and emphasises emphasizes [[Freud]]'s position that [[repression]] does not bear upon the [[affect]] (which can only be transformed or [[displacement|displaced]]) but upon the ideational representative (which is, in [[Lacan]]'s terms, the [[signifier]]) (.<ref>{{Ec, }} p. 714). --</ref>
====Clinical Practice====
[[Lacan]]'s comments on the concept of [[affect]] have important implications in [[clinical]] [[practice]].
=====Structure=====Firstly, all the concepts [[:Category:Concepts|concept]]s in [[psychoanalysis]] which have traditionally been conceived in terms of [[affect]]s, such as the [[transference]], must be rethought in terms of their [[symbolic]] [[structure]], if the [[analyst]] is to direct the [[treatment]] correctly. --
=====Lure=====
Secondly, the [[affect]]s are [[lure]]s which can deceive the [[analyst]], and hence the [[analyst]] must be wary of being tricked by his own [[affect]]s.
This does not mean that the [[analyst]] must disregard his own feelings for the [[patient]], but simply that he must know how to make adequate use of them.
Finally, it follows that the aim of [[psychoanalytic]] [[treatment]] is not the reliving of [[past]] experiences, nor the [[abreaction]] of [[affect]], but the articulation in [[speech]] of the [[truth]] about [[desire]].
Another term in [[Lacan]]'s [[discourse]], related to but distinct from "[[affect]]," is the term "[[passion]]."
[[Lacan]] speaks of the '"three fundamental passions'": [[love]], [[hate]] and [[ignorance]].<ref>{{S1}} p.271</ref>
This is a reference to Buddhist thought.<ref>{{E}} p.94</ref>
These [[passion]]s are not [[imaginary|imaginary phenomena]] phenomena, but located at the junctions between the three [[order|three order]]s.
==See Also==
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* [[Analyst]]
* [[Desire]]
* [[Ego]]
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* [[Imaginary]]
* [[Love]]
* [[Lure]]
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* [[Repression]]
* [[Resistance]]
* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Speech]]
* [[Structure]]
* [[Symbolic]]
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* [[Transference]]
* [[Treatment]]
* [[Truth]]
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== References ==
[[Category:Psychoanalysis]]
[[Category:Jacques Lacan]]
[[Category:Symbolic]]
[[Category:Practice]]
[[Category:Treatment]]
[[Category:Dictionary]]
[[Category:Concepts]]
[[Category:Terms]]
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