Volatile Bodies - Elizabeth Grosz - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9780367720056 - March 31, 2021
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Elizabeth Grosz
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Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivity, psychological depth and inferiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses, transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of the body (Freud, Lacan, Merleau-Ponty, Schilder, Nietzsche, Foucault, Lingis and Deleuze) who, while freeing the body from its subordination to the mind, are nonetheless unable to accomodate the specificities of women's bodies.

This book explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms - psychosis, hypochondria, neurological disturbances, perversions and sexual deviation - and most particularly the enigmatic status of body fluids, and the female body.

268 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 31, 2021
ISBN13 9780367720056
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 268
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   653 g
Language English  

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