Affective deficits from brain damage cause social and work exclusion

Evidence

The first reason for making this connection is certainly the fact that people with brain lesions are often liable to be excluded from the social bond because of their handicap. Their emotional coolness is doubled by an inability to choose, to accord weight to things, to make good decisions and such deficits often make it impossible for the subject to integrate himself into the work world. Just as reason comes up short when deprived of emo­ tional signals, the will cannot will anything in the absence of affect. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3359

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lesions hitting emotion-producing brain mechanisms alter identity — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 489; Racial affect circulates as intensified emotions mediating exclusion and disciplinary power

Broader Connections

• Lesions hitting emotion-producing brain mechanisms alter identity #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 489
• Racial affect circulates as intensified emotions mediating exclusion and disciplinary power #expands (0.72)