Immanent confidence

I think we need to stop thinking of confidence as an ‘affect’, as if it were some sort of ‘subjective’ add-on to behaviour. ‘Confidence’, if that’s the word, is immanent in forms of behaviour, dispositions, speech acts etc. or is the name for the assumptions that guide such behaviour. It’s not some kind of buzz-feeling that accompanies action. Perhaps the ‘the feeling of confidence’ would in that case be the self-awareness of what one already is, not ‘experience’ but its reflection.

[obviously, this is in reference to recent discussions of 'confidence' and class, at antigram etc]