Law and literature's advance into affectivity brings with it an assumption that it may dispense with psychoanalysis and sublate the literary. This discussion engages with Greta Olson's recent survey of this development to the end of unearthing some insights into the relation between affectivity and narrative in law and literature as an interdisciplinary field. Further, the recent expositions on Baruch Spinoza by Slavoj Žižek and Aglaia Kiarina Kordela are considered in an attempt to disturb the Deleuzian misreading of Spinoza that underlies some significant assumptions of affect theory, particularly its rejection of psychoanalysis and subjectivity.