The Affect (n.) is not 'made' or willfully produced... it simply happens, often surprising even to the person concerned... the more violent it is the closest comes to the pathological, to a condition in which the ego-consciousness is thrust aside by autonomous contents that were unconscious before.
Affect (n.) is feeling that has entered the body: a state of feeling with marked physical innervation and a peculiar disturbance of thought — and, unlike feeling, not at one's disposal.
Affect (n.) feeds on itself: the body's stirrings are sensed, and the sensation of them swells the feeling, each reinforcing the other.
Affect (n.) always occurs where adaptation fails: unable to relate to the person who carries our soul, libido dams up and explodes.
Affect (n.) is the symptom of inner disharmony — and the proof that I am sensing myself, and so can turn my attention to the play of opposites within.
Affect (n.) works by suggestion while the mind works only by arduous translation — so social affects must stay shallow, since deep ones beget passion in others and upset the life of society.
Affect (n.) is all the unpsychological man sees in others; when they show none, they become invisible to him.
Affect (n.) is tamed by one paradox: "I am this affect" and "this affect is not me," held at once.
Affect (n.) is the moment the other side speaks: let it state its case without criticism, then answer it as conscientiously as a real person close to you.
Affect (n.) tends to become an autonomous complex and drag the ego after it — as when a man's tongue runs away with him; hence the ancients called spirits imagines, images.
Affect (n.) lights one content to supernormal brightness by stealing energy from all others, which darken — and the unconscious slips into the space vacated.
Affect (n.) is not made; it simply happens — and the autonomy of the unconscious begins exactly where emotions are generated.
Affect (n.) breaks out where adaptation is weakest, and in breaking out shows exactly why it is weak.
Affect (n.) is how the subject gets involved and comes to feel the whole weight of reality — the difference between an illness in the textbook and the one you have.
Affect (n.) gathers wherever adaptation is least complete — which is why the emotions crowd round sexuality.
Affect (n.) shows how fragile consciousness is: we say a man was 'beside himself', 'the devil got into him', he 'jumped out of his skin' — and some upheavals leave a 'changed man' for decades.
Affect (n.) can be controlled but must be paid for: somewhere it will operate — in a neurosis or an 'arrangement' of mishaps; even the saint pays for his immunity with suffering. Sometimes we may choose the currency.
Affect (n.) stops the pendulum swing of autonomous opposites and produces a uniform state — which is why the dream stages an exciting Ufo, as though calling out 'Look out!'
Affect (n.) is tied to the deed that caused it as the wound to the weapon.
Affect (n.) should be admitted and submitted to, not escaped by intellectual tricks — then, knowing what struck you, you turn blind violence into knowledge.