The Body’s Affection: between emotional attachment and danced movement

Abstract Affect is experienced by the dancer at a basic energetic level: a need to breathe - breathe in the world through the body and breathe out the body into the world. Through this movement of affect the dancer experiences a bodily transformation process as a vital need. This study confronts the sensory-somatic perception of affect as a force of movement experienced by the practice of dance, with the notion of affection taken as an emotional bond between individuals studied by developmental psychology. By giving voice to dance knowledge and by using the theory of Cognitive Metaphors of Lakoff and Johnson, it seeks to deepen the origin of the sense of affection and to understand how its transference of meaning between the dance and psychology occurs. In both fields, affection reveals itself as a survival force. However, dance perceives affection at a pre-personal level, as a force of the body-world relation, whereas developmental psychology perceives affection at a conscious level, i.e. at the level of a body that has already passed through a process of subjectivation.

摘要：情感（Affect）以基础的能量维度被舞者感知：这是一种呼吸的需求——通过身体吸纳周遭世界，又将身体吐纳于世界之中。藉由这种情感的流动，舞者将身体的转化过程视作至关重要的生存必需。本研究将舞蹈实践中所体验到的、作为运动力量的情感（Affect）的感官-躯体感知，与发展心理学所研究的、作为个体间情感纽带的依恋（affection）概念进行对照分析。本研究通过彰显舞蹈知识，并运用莱考夫（Lakoff）与约翰逊（Johnson）的认知隐喻理论，旨在深化对依恋情感起源的探究，并厘清其意义在舞蹈与心理学领域间的传递机制。在两个领域中，依恋均展现为一种生存力量。然而，舞蹈视角下的依恋处于前个人层面，作为一种身体与世界的联结力量；而发展心理学视角下的依恋则处于意识层面，亦即经历过主体化进程的身体层面。