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The Transmission of Affect deals with the belief that the emotions and energies of one person or group can be absorbed by or can enter directly into another.



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Brennan challenges what she views as a uniquely Western myth, that individuals are discrete and self-contained, with affect driven primarily from endogenous sources. Instead, she argues, humans absorb emotions that originate from others and that influence their very physiology and experience. This argument challenges the boundaries that are often assumed to exist between the self and the environment, between subject and object.

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The Transmission of Affect

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 22 January 2004
      ISBN-13 9780801488627
      978-0801488627
      ISBN-10 0801488621
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      Book Synopsis

      The Transmission of Affect deals with the belief that the emotions and energies of one person or group can be absorbed by or can enter directly into another.



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      Brennan challenges what she views as a uniquely Western myth, that individuals are discrete and self-contained, with affect driven primarily from endogenous sources. Instead, she argues, humans absorb emotions that originate from others and that influence their very physiology and experience. This argument challenges the boundaries that are often assumed to exist between the self and the environment, between subject and object.

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