Adrian Johnston and Catherine Malabou. Self and Emotional Life. Columbia University Press 2013.
What is an unconscious affect? How are affects able to be unconscious? For Lacanians, unconscious affects are a contradiction in terms.
Guilt = Affect yes or no?
Freud in mid mature career around 1920 or so, 180 degree change, he added the notion of superego to his theoretical vocabulary. Hints in 1914, On Narcissism. But coming out in The Ego and the Id (1923)
Superego: there are unconscious dimensions of the superego. What analysts see often are patients who feel guilty but don’t know why, some commit a crime just so in order to give a cause to this unbearable feeling of guilt: guilt-in-search-of-a-crime. 79
There are unconscious dimensions of the superego. Is it possible for someone to feel guilty without being (fully) conscious of feeling this way? 79 If affects are felt then they have to be conscious right?