L'affection (Spinoza's affectio) is each such state considered as an encounter between the affected body and a second, affecting, body (with body taken in its broadest possible sense to include "mental" or ideal bodies). It is a prepersonal intensity corresponding to the passage from one experiential state of the body to another and implying an augmentation or diminution in that body's capacity to act. L'affect (Spinoza's affectus) is an ability to affect and be affected. Neither word denotes a personal feeling ( sentiment in Deleuze and Guattari). In his notes on the terminology employed, the translator Brian Massumi gives the following definitions of the terms as used in the volume:ĪFFECT/AFFECTION. The terms "affect" and "affection" came to prominence in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus, the second volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Henri Bergson contends in Matter and Memory (1896) that we do not know our body only "from without" by perceptions, but also "from within" by affections (French: affections). Affects are transitional states or modes in that they are vital forces by which the organism strives to act against other forces which act on it and continually resist it or hold it in check. In Spinoza's view, since God's power of activity is infinite, any affection which increases the organism's power of activity leads to greater perfection.
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