%0 Journal Article
%T Forms of vitality revisited: The construction of an affective bodily self
%A Cristina Meini
%A Massimo Marraffa
%J Theory & Psychology
%@ 1461-7447
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0959354318822175
%X This article outlines a socio-constructivist view of the ontogeny of an early form of psychological self-consciousness: an affective bodily self-consciousness. In so doing, it aims at contributing to a larger anti-Cartesian agenda, which rejects the claim of the primary nature of the knowledge of one¡¯s own mental states. This will be pursued by seeking a synthesis of what may at first appear as a motley assortment of materials: the social biofeedback theory of parental affect-mirroring proposed by Gy£¿rgy Gergely and John S. Watson, Daniel Stern¡¯s notion of forms of vitality, and Antonio Damasio¡¯s concept of background feelings
%K background feelings
%K basic emotions
%K core affect
%K social biofeedback
%K vitality forms
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959354318822175