TERM AND TRANSLATION

affect

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情动 marks a relation of force and changing bodily capacity beyond represented personal emotion, while remaining distinct from a particular affection or modification.

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Atlas working translation

情动

French term
affect
English term
affect
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Variants and search terms

  • 感受Simplified record
  • 情感Simplified record
  • 触动Simplified record
  • 情状Simplified record
  • 情動Traditional record
  • 觸動Traditional record
  • affectCommon / non-Chinese record
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Conceptual boundary

Affect expresses changes in capacity through bodies, situations, and relations; intense emotion is one possible representation.

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Sources and translations

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    Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 1. L’image-mouvement, Minuit, 1983

    French primary text and terminological baseline.

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    Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie ?, Minuit, 1991

    French primary text for concepts, the plane of immanence, percepts, and affects.

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    “德勒兹词典”中文社区语料

    Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.

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  4. 04
    Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1

    Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.

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Related concepts and terms