Freud’s views on the nature of affect and the implications of Damasio’s view of the body/brain relation for this aspect of psychoanalysis.
Affects
Feelings begin at a somatic level as affect, which is largely unconscious. They become emotion when we become aware of the sensation of feeling something. To become a “feeling” we bring our mind to the experience of emotion and move it into the symbolic realm by naming what it is that we are feeling.