The Forms of the Affects Quotes

“The history of philosophy and philosophical criticism generally has assumed that Aristophanes's hiccups and sneezes were dry, polite affairs that could be reduced to their ordinal, satirical, historical, or literary import. But while the philosophers may have decided to avoid excess food and drink for the sake of philosophical reflection, the gustatory returns in the odorous afterglow of digestion's excessive effects on the bloated corpus.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects

“While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects

“Sartre de-passifies the passions, refiguring them as active, chosen attempts to transform and act on the world in which the subject finds herself.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects