ISBN-13: 9781583911549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 184 str.
ISBN-13: 9781583911549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 184 str.
The Mind's Affective Life provides an examination of the relationship between feeling and thinking. Our thoughts and behaviour are shaped by both our emotions and reason; yet most of the literature analyzing thought has concentrated largely on philosophical reasoning and neglected emotions. This book contributes to the rapidly growing literature on the neglected affective dimensions of modern thought. The author draws on contemporary psychoanalysis, philosophy, feminist theory and recent innovations in neuroscience to argue that in order to to understand thought, we need to consider not only both emotional and rational aspects of thought but also the complex interactions between these different aspects. Only through such a rich and complicated understanding of modern thought can we hope to avoid what the author identifies as a significant contemporary problems for individuals and cultures; that is, suppression or denial of intolerable states of feeling.