Embodiment Flashcards
How the body has traditionally been treated
In a Cartesian dualistic manner
In a monist way- ie.reduced to genes, biology, physiology, brain processes
We can’t separate body/mind
Finlay and Langdridge
The embodied self is a social object/ object of discourse
Foucault
Bulimia/anorexia
Bodies express cultural meanings- disciplinary technologies
ME and RSI only recently classified
Gergen. Previously they were ‘hysteria’
Foucault on why we have ME and RSI classified
Capitalism has found this useful
Body: power relations in discourse- who decides what is normal?
Science constructs standards of normality
We ARE our body
Nietzsche
Phenomenological study of disease-
Researcher?
Researched?
Disease?
Key points?
Finlay Anne MS Disrupts Anne's pre-reflectively lived body- disrupts body-unity, body-intentionality, being-for-others and embodied intersubjective relationships with others Views it with a medical gaze
Merleau-Ponty
What is our relationship with the world
More than embodied consciousness, we have an intercorporeal being in which we are dynamically intertwined with the world
3 phenomenological kinds of body consciousness and who?
The subjective body= body-subject =pre-reflective
The objective body
Bodily self-consciousness- critical gaze disrupts the unity of the pre-reflectively lived body
Sartre
Example of a body project in pop culture
Michael Jackson:
Linked with racial used power relations in western societies
People use their bodies as what?
Who said it?
Giddens
An ongoing identity project
Opposite of Marilyn Monroe
The tyranny of slenderness
Möbius strip- who said it?
Grosz
What is a body project?
Who said it?
An ongoing attempt to change the body to change our experience of the world- Giddens
Eating disorders
Women’s collusion with patriarchal standards of femininity
Susan Bordo 1988
Women voluntarily subject themselves to self surveillance
What does Foucault say medicine, psych, sociology and education are?
Who benefits?
Disciplinary regimes
Professional experts
What do binaries like healthy/unhealthy, normal/ abnormal, sane/mad have the potential to do? Foucault
‘Othering’ and marginalisation
Women should take more control back of the process of becoming a mother (e.g. Epidurals) - who?
Oakley
Corporeal body vs bodiliness
Who?
E.g.s of bodiliness?
Heidegger
Pointing Playing racquet sports Driving a car Tattoos- link body to social world Uniform- link body to social world
