Rock and a Hard Place

• Responses to First Learning about Affect Theory by Jim Duffy a.k.a. J.C.D., 2/28/97
  • More on Initial Responses to Affect Theory by Vick Kelly, 3/1/97
    
    

I like your juxtaposition between affect and intellect. I think in Western cultures we are strongly pushed towards the peruits of the intellect because that is where the "payoff" is . We are often advused to repress our affect because this would be detrimental to our intellectual development. Or, we are shamed into repressing an affective response. However, I think I disagree with you somewhat in your portrayal of intellect and affect as being seperate entities. I would like to suggest that the intellect is the conduit through which affect flows. The intellect (cognition) is also the processor, if you will, of affective experience through which affective components are integrated into the consciousness. I see true insight and undersdtanding resulting through the tandem operation of both the intellect and the affect (working in union). Your input appreciated.......Ed

• Intellect and Affect by Vick Kelly, 3/7/97
  • Cognition and Human Emotion by Ed Riemann, 3/8/97
    • Independence of affect and cognition by Don Nathanson, 3/8/97
      • Projection and Interpretation by Ed Riemann, 3/9/97
        • Read the book by Don Nathanson, 3/10/97
          • Dan by Ed Riemann, 3/11/97
          • Get On With Business by Bored, 5/17/97