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.
Brain
Mental and emotional health is laid down on what is inborn from birth by a course of development, both internal and through emotional contacts with external reality. Patterns are formed and, although the human mind, brain and personality remain extraordinarily plastic, once these patterns are unconscious, they can be hard to change – making the personality rigid in ways that are difficult and painful.