Memory, fantasy, and perception all depend on the emotions

Evidence

Is not memory inseparable from love, which seeks to preserve what yet must pass away? Is not each stirring of fantasy engendered by desire which, in displacing the elements of what exists, transcends it without betrayal? Is not indeed the simplest perception shaped by fear of the thing perceived, or desire for it? — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 150

Categorization

• XREF: This is Adorno’s most compressed claim that cognition is affective all the way down — connects to the Fragments on love and to the general reading goal of causal relations in damaged life. — connects to: No felt quality can distinguish memory from imagination; Affectivity is inseparable from materiality in Sartrean perception — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 358; Memory serves the pleasure principle, not trauma, and grounds all thinking — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 226 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Affectivity is inseparable from materiality in Sartrean perception #corroborates (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 358