Open AccessReleasing Affects or the Release from Affects. The Case of Freud and Spinoza
Author(s) -
Szymon Wróbel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sociološki diskurs/sociological discourse
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2637-2878
pISSN - 2232-867X
DOI - 10.7251/socen1916005w
Subject(s) - affection , trace (psycholinguistics) , statement (logic) , natural (archaeology) , psychoanalysis , affect (linguistics) , psychology , philosophy , epistemology , history , communication , linguistics , archaeology
In this paper, the author is questioning the very concept of “indifferenceof thinking”. The author also asks: in what sense thinkingleads to “overall indifference”? What, indeed, is indifference? Carefullyreading the philosophical texts on affects, mainly Spinoza, Freud,Bergson and Deleuze, the author argues, that indifference is not akind of non-affection, beside-affection, post-affection, but rather, itis a trace of affect – just as cinders are remnants of fire. Indifferenceis not abnegation either, which is a kind of statement that we couldnot care less. On the contrary, it is in indifference where we find aprofound commitment to bringing back the things of this world totheir natural position.