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Incalculable Precision: Psychoanalysis and the Measure of Emotion

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Beyond Cartesian Dualism

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Pitt, A.J. (2005). Incalculable Precision: Psychoanalysis and the Measure of Emotion. In: Cobern, W.W., et al. Beyond Cartesian Dualism. Science & Technology Education Library, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3808-9_3

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