Psychology has traditionally taken emotion and cognition into consideration as two separate domains, giving continuity to the Western tradition, which thinks cognition as abstract and unfleshed; and emotion as a predominantly extra-cognitive factor with an evolutive basis. This paper aims at rethinking this supposed separation and contributes to the understanding of the production of emotion together with cognition. As our theoretical basis we picked Francisco Varela and Natalie Depraz' ideas about the dynamics of the affective folding. According to such perspective, the affective and pre-reflexive axis bends while constituting a second axis that unfolds itself into emotions and cognitive contents. Emotion and cognitive contents are intersected by affective forces. The affective plan, which crosses the cognitive-emotive one, connects cognition and emotion in an immanent co-engenderment.
Affection; emotion; cognition