affected

From Latin affectus, the affected It is one of the passions of the cheer up. It's about the inclination towards someone or something, especially from love or darling. For example: "Ricardo's attitude was a real show of affection", "All children should be treated with affection", "Affection is essential in human relationships, but it does not prevent friction and conflict from occurring".

It is common for the notion of affection to be used in a more formal or distant than the concept of love. Feeling affection for someone is not the same as loving them. On the other hand, it is not frequent to say that you love an object, while having affection for something is more common: "I am not going to give any toy from my childhood as I have a lot of affection for all of them", "I know I should tell him what I think, but I don't want to hurt him since I feel affection for him.".

For the psychology, affectivity is the susceptibility of the human being to different alterations of the real or symbolic world. It is usually produced through an interactive process (who feels affection receives something from the other party): "Lautaro felt great affection when he heard the news".

Some of the fundamental points of affectivity are the following: the preponderance of the family and love relationships; the functions of consciousness; well-defined goals are set towards which love, tendencies and sex are directed; there is an oscillation between what is liked or disliked and what is hated, which represent two poles of a sexual nature.

According to Antonio Damásio, a renowned neurologist from Portugal, the emotions and all the reactions that come from them have a connection with the body, but the feelings are linked to the mind. Despite the fact that no one has established a series of formal differences between affect and emotions, there are authors who define the former as a process of interaction between a minimum of two people, but consider that the latter occur in the intimacy of each individual.

On the other hand, there is the position of Benedict de Spinoza, a Dutch philosopher of the seventeenth century, opposed to the previous one regarding the links between affection, emotions, body and mind. According to his studies, there were various affects, which we can see below:

* the wish: when a person is determined to carry out an action moved by an affection that comes from his own essence;

* joy: it occurs when transcending from a degree of perfection to a greater one;

* the sadness: the phenomenon reverse of joy;

* the admiration: it takes place when the soul is perplexed by an image, since it cannot connect it with others;

* contemptGiven the insignificant impact produced on the soul by one thing, the former tries to search for everything that it does not find in the latter, instead of paying attention to what it does notice in it;

* love: it is the combination of a joy with a fact of origin external to the own being;

* hatred: similar to love, sadness is combined with an external cause;

* propensity: it occurs when the idea of ​​an object that accidentally causes joy, accompanies a joy;

* adversity: it is like propensity, but instead of joy it focuses on a sadness;

On the other hand, it is said that a person is affected by something when it is intended to provide their services or perform functions in a certain dependency: "The players affected by the concentration could not walk around the city", "The affected neighbors decided to take their protest to court".