The fallacy of hypostatization of affect has occurred in two forms—originally by equating affect and energy, and recently by equating affect and structure. Both forms of this fallacy seem to foster the conceptualization of affect itself being capable of unconscious existence. In the above I have advocated retention of the prior concept of affect as conscious ego response. Such

a conceptualization seems necessary to the development of a general theory of affect and a general theory of signal affect.