 Many Continental feminists focus on the overlaying of mental and physical experience via the concepts of affect, emotion, and feeling. Affect is described by Teresa Brennan as “the physiological shift accompanying a judgment” (Brennan 2004: 5). The “transmission of affect” describes the way that one can catch the mood of another; this experience is “social in origin but biological and physical in effect” (Brennan 2004: 3). Brennan describes transmission as when the “emotions or affects of one person, and the enhancing or depressing energies these affects entail” pass from one person to another (Brennan 2004: 3). Affect is thus one way to describe how social experience impacts the corporeal life of subjects through the transference of energy. In Brennan’s case, affective states are directional; they are not neutral but push or press on subjects. At the same time, terms like affect and feeling might be distinguished based on the extent to which one considers affect to be already coded with or influenced by social significance for a subject (see Ahmed 2010: 230–231, Seigworth &amp; Gregg 2010, esp. 5–8).