Is There a Subject?

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The subject, in the sense is what we arei cannot be abstracted. Must be fully there. So abstractly myself really ha been wrong. That's number one. And also number two, i realized that so many people develop amensa,. It was almost way of seeing how my experience could be of some sort of helpor, i don't know what, to others. And also how i could honour my own mother by doing so. Because my mother had, was a poet, been a poet, a writer, an intellectual or her life. She lost her episodic memory, meaning her long term memories, but ure, verbal sagacity was extraordinary and she said amazing

Shermer and Arikha discuss: what it means for a mind to be disrupted • dementia, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease • mental illness and the labeling problem • the social construction of mental illness • neurology and psychiatry • agency and volition • memory and amnesia • autobiographical memory • self and embodied self • brain modularity • brain as a machine • emotions and cognition: bodily changes first then the awareness of the emotion • conversion disorder/hysteria • depression • metacognition: thinking about thinking • exteroception and interoception.

Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.