ABSTRACT
We now come to a problem which although it has never been clearly formulated has been disturbing throughout the history of psychoanalysis and psychology. When I experience an affect, this affect can be said to occupy the whole of me. By this I mean that if we take the opposite of whole in terms of three dimensions, namely part, it is inaccurate to say that an affect is a part of me. One cannot say properly that the affect is in a certain region of me; it seems, in fact, to occupy the whole of me.
