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Abstract
This paper investigates the resolutory role of affectivity in the earliest mediation between technical reality and the systemic articulation of the Homo genus within its milieu. Drawing on the insights of French paleoanthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan and his subsequent philosophical extensions, the analysis focuses on the Simondonian doctrine which posits that stratified affectivity guides individuation by mapping the environment through a constellation of symbolic intensities. The human vector, driven by bio-anatomical constraints, articulates its surroundings through affective resonances inscribed in external objects, leading to a technical polarization and domestication of time and space in the primitive world. Within this framework, the paleontological rupture of the hominization process – the movement of exteriorization – generates a primary evolutionary splitting, where complex technicity and emotionality co-emerge to provisionally resolve the existential problems posed by nature. This study argues that, in the initial phases of technical tool concretization, a foundational imaginative and emotional shock reconfigures conflicting affective tensions into a new metastable operative unity. The tool itself is the material codification of these primordial affects, emerging as a direct response to nature’s influence. This recursive co-production between the material and the symbolic – unveiled in a “mineral psyche” – lays the paleopsychic foundations of emotion. The paper concludes that, following Leroi-Gourhan’s genetic scheme, affectivity and technique emerge as expressions of the same evolutionary movement, allowing their reciprocal genesis to be historically traced.