Body Separated, Body Stranded. The Subject of Exile
Assoun, Paul-Laurent
Body Separated, Body Stranded. The Subject of Exile - 2016.
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The question of the foreigner gives insight into the unconscious logic of segregation as subjective position and social condition. The subject-in-exile is not only removed from the native enjoyment, it activates on this occasion something related to its own body, which comes to light in and by the “exilic condition.” It is the shipwrecked-body, “run aground” on the shore of the other who sets the stage. The “washed-up” wreck named Ulysses, in which Nausicaa recognizes the shape of the hero, serves as a paradigm. It allows us to put into perspective the question of the “care” required by this exiled body, in which the event of exile reveals, in a traumatic mode, a structural datum: the estrangement of the subject in relation to its body, a meeting with its “extimacy.” [extimité]. Here we find the object of origin of the private hospital, this homesickness (Heimweh), the “feeling of the Other” of which exile is the actualization. In short, exile releases the body, which, through the treatment of somatizations, gives insight into the treatment of the foreigner.
Body Separated, Body Stranded. The Subject of Exile - 2016.
88
The question of the foreigner gives insight into the unconscious logic of segregation as subjective position and social condition. The subject-in-exile is not only removed from the native enjoyment, it activates on this occasion something related to its own body, which comes to light in and by the “exilic condition.” It is the shipwrecked-body, “run aground” on the shore of the other who sets the stage. The “washed-up” wreck named Ulysses, in which Nausicaa recognizes the shape of the hero, serves as a paradigm. It allows us to put into perspective the question of the “care” required by this exiled body, in which the event of exile reveals, in a traumatic mode, a structural datum: the estrangement of the subject in relation to its body, a meeting with its “extimacy.” [extimité]. Here we find the object of origin of the private hospital, this homesickness (Heimweh), the “feeling of the Other” of which exile is the actualization. In short, exile releases the body, which, through the treatment of somatizations, gives insight into the treatment of the foreigner.
Réseaux sociaux