each plot unit is itself a configuration of smaller entites called "affect states." Affect states do not attempt to describe complex emotional reactions or states of desire in the detail that inference mechanisms would require; they merely mark gross distinctions between "positive" events, "negative" events, and mental events of null or neutral emotionality.

plot units is a certain connectivity of words that holds together because of a strong causal presence in this multiplicity or because of an emotional state clearly conveyed within.

e.g.
The affect analysis for John and Mary reveal configurations of a trade-off from retaliation on the part of Mary, and a problem resolution leading to loss for John.' Ideally, one might expect good summaries to convey each of these four plot units (trade-off, retaliation, problem resolution, and loss).

Yes, I would say that what I take here from Bataille is of course this central meaning that communication implies a gap between the one and the other, and that communication is not a continuous transmission, because the continuous transmission is a transmission of a information. Information is a concept. What I don’t share absolutely with Bataille is the way he goes from that gap to the cut and then slowly to the sacrifice, which implies that there is still another realm, a sacred realm to which I could transfer something. In the end however Bataille did himself write "what I call the sacred is nothing else than the communication of passions", and from there we could return to love, etc, regarding passion, and once again for you the man with the concept, in the communication, it shall still be a communication of passion, even if it is through or by the means of concept. (Nancy)