Affect and reason
By Sylvain Tousseul
English
This article intends to understand how experience prompts us into reasoning, and especially how it is possible that our affects animate our logics. Inspired by the Freudian metapsychology and the Aristotelician logic, it defines that urge fates are released according to specific spatiotemporal conditions, and each of them has an affective dynamic, the motion of which constitutes a rational logic. In other words, what Aristotle described when observing speech, Freud described it when observing clinic, as reason is only the linguistic expression of our affects.
- affect
- reason
- logic
- language
- Freud
- Aristotle
- philosophy