Abstract
N THE OPENING PAGES of Postmodernism, Fredric Jameson argues for waning of in our time (10).' Connecting affect expression and expression to some conception of the subject as monadlike container,Jameson suggests that the demise of the monad may mean not only liberation from anxiety but liberation from every other kind of as well, since there is no longer self present do the feeling (15). Jameson's cornments memorably articulate what others have recently sensed-that there is some kind of contradiction in attributing emotion, or at least strong and clear emotion, self not fully present, self not exactly there. Thus, Manfred Frank remarks that a dead subject emits no more cries of pain (10), and-as if developing this aphorism -another critic remarks:
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