Inside Outside
Quotes from the book 'pictures of the body- pain and metamorphosis' by james elkins:
-any cut can be a 'wound door' that allows the spirit to escape. It is normally impolite even to look at the places where the inside of the body becomes visible-the twilight of nostrils, ears, mouths, anuses, vaginas and urethras. The inside is by definition and by nature that which is not seen. p. 109
Last of three classes in general category of pain concerns skin that has been cut open, revealing the flesh beneath. Flesh has a metaphors of liquidity, as if the body is a bag of skin, holding a fluid interior. In general, the invisible inside of the body has been considered too painful to represent. p.29
In the normal functioning of visible bodies, skin separates whatever is visible from the parts of ourselves that are hidden.
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The inside/outside dichotomy, with its metaphors of public and private life.
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infolding....enfolding
the nature of the pocket becomes a primary concern. Multiple membranes enclose pockets within the body - the hear, the chest, parts of the brain, the joints and there are so many such pockets that it can again begin to appear that it would be adequate to define the body as collection of pockets.
If I turn a sock inside out, then the area that once enclosed my foot now encloses the world, and I have trapped the outside in the inside. p.44
Freud said, the demands of the body become ideas in the mind: the very spot where flesh becomes intelligible, where mute drives become signs. p.1
In the normal functioning of visible bodies, skin separates whatever is visible from the parts of ourselves that are hidden.
...
The inside/outside dichotomy, with its metaphors of public and private life.
....
infolding....enfolding
the nature of the pocket becomes a primary concern. Multiple membranes enclose pockets within the body - the hear, the chest, parts of the brain, the joints and there are so many such pockets that it can again begin to appear that it would be adequate to define the body as collection of pockets.
If I turn a sock inside out, then the area that once enclosed my foot now encloses the world, and I have trapped the outside in the inside. p.44
Freud said, the demands of the body become ideas in the mind: the very spot where flesh becomes intelligible, where mute drives become signs. p.1
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