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af'fective fal'lacy

a proposition in literary criticism that a poem should be analyzed and described in terms of its own internal structure and not in terms of the emotional response it arouses in the reader.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

affective disorder

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