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Affect (psychology)

Affect (psychology)
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experience of feeling or emotion

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  1. It will not have escaped you that a certain ambiguity and indefiniteness exists in the use of the word ‘anxiety.’ It is generally understood to mean the subjective condition arising upon the perception of what we have called ‘developed’ anxiety; such a condition is called an affect. Now what is an affect, in a dynamic sense? It is certainly something very complex.

    Sigmund Freud, Introductory lectures on psycho-analysis

    Names Affect several times; states what Affect is.

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  2. In a predisposed person if there is no adaptation for conversion, and still for the purpose of defense a separation of the unbearable idea from its affect is undertaken, the affect must then remain in the psychic sphere. The weakened idea remains apart from all association in consciousness, but its freed affect attaches itself to other not in themselves unbearable ideas, which on account of this “false” connection…

    Sigmund Freud, Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneuroses

    Names Affect several times; states what Affect is.

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  3. Consequently, if we conceive anyone similar to ourselves as affected by any emotion, this conception will express a modification of our body similar to that emotion. Thus, from the fact of conceiving a thing like ourselves to be affected with any emotion, we are ourselves affected with a like emotion. If, however, we hate the said thing like ourselves, we shall, to that extent, be affected by a contrary, and not…

    Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics

    States what Affect is; names Affect twice.

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