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Affective Bodily Awareness

Affective Bodily Awareness
Open Access

Affective Bodily Awareness

Frédérique de Vignemont, Institut Jean Nicod and Université PSL, Paris
October 2023
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Paperback
9781009209687

    Most accounts of bodily self-awareness focus on its sensory and agentive dimensions, tracking the origins of our special relationship with our own body in the way we gain information about it and in the way we act with it. However, they often neglect a fundamental dimension of our subjective bodily life, namely, its affective dimension. This Element will discuss bodily self-awareness through the filter of its affective significance. It is organized around four core themes: (i) the relationship between bodily awareness and action in instrumental and protective contexts, (ii) the motivational role of pain and interoception, (iii) the sense of bodily ownership and its relation to the value of the body for survival, and (iv) bodily anchoring in peripersonal and egocentric awareness. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    Product details

    October 2023
    Paperback
    9781009209687
    75 pages
    228 × 152 × 5 mm
    0.13kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. The acting body
    • 2. The affective body
    • 3. When the body becomes mine
    • 4. When the world is here
    • Outstanding questions
    • References.
      Author
    • Frédérique de Vignemont , Institut Jean Nicod and Université PSL, Paris