[...]ntext ='lgc'>+ anatomy
the ="nms">body image is extremely fluid and dynamic ='lgc'>: its borders, ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, and c="trms">ontours are osmotic (تراوش کننده), they have the remarkable power of incorporating and expelling outside and inside in an ongoing ="trms">interchange ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">social='strcls'>*

S="trms">childer's “zones of sensitivity”='lgc'>: bodily orifices ='lgc'>+ its sensation experienced about one centimeter from the opening (-for example how the diseases of ="trms">internal organs are not experienced in their precise anatomical locations)
='strcls'>*zones outside the body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intrusion into this bodily space is considered as much a violation as penetration of the body itself, the size and form of this surrounding space of safety is individually, sexually, racially, and culturally variable ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#clean and dirt for my mother; my ="nms">body image outside space surrounding it when i am in my room is the room itself, every corner, every niche accumulates senses and thoughts...='lgc'>]
the space surrounding the body is not uniform='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•thinner in some places (which more ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readily tolerate body contact)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">thicker in some places (which are particularly psychically, ="trms">socially, and culturally “privatized”)
="lsts lst1">•

="prgrph">-acting uses ="nms">body image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">body image can shrink or expand; it can give parts to the outside ="trms">world and can take other parts into itself
="prgrph">-playing setar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (part of the difficulty of learning how to use ="trms">instruments, such as setar) the libidinal problem of how they become psychically invested (='lgc'>=/= simply the ="trms">technical problem of how they are used)

surgeon's ="nms">body image

in driving, trying to fit into a small parking spot ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- experienced in the ="nms">body image of the driver (and sometimes, to their ="trms">horror, in that of the passengers) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> by inability to drive is related to a bad ="nms">body image='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

="nms">body image is capable of accommodating and incorporating an extremely wide range of objects='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•clothing
="lsts lst1">•jewelry
="lsts lst1">•other bodies
="lsts lst1">•objects
="lsts lst1">•nail polish
="lsts lst1">•jets, ships, cars
="lsts lst1">•bodily zones='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦orifices
="lsts lst2">◦curves
="lsts lst2">◦convex spaces
="lsts lst2">◦concave spaces
="lsts lst1">•“detachable” or ="trms">intermediate ="trms">category of objects, midway between the inanimate and the bodily ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="ppl">Lacanian objet a, Kristeva's abject='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦body's excretions
="lsts lst2">◦body's waste products
="lsts lst2">◦bodily byproducts
="lsts lst3">◾urine
="lsts lst3">◾faeces
="lsts lst3">◾saliva
="lsts lst3">◾sperm
="lsts lst3">◾blood
="lsts lst3">◾vomit
="lsts lst3">◾hair
="lsts lst3">◾nails
="lsts lst3">◾skin
  ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> retain something of the cathexis and value of the body (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> keeping my chopped nails, old toys, art-works... ='qstn'>?! ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘detachment='lgc'> = your work (art, etc.) is not bound up with your ="nms">body image’), they remain magically linked to the body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narcissistic investment in the ="nms">body image

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****human subjects never simply have a body='strcls'>****
the body is always necessarily the object and subject of attitudes and judgments, psychically invested, never a ="trms">matter of in="trms">difference
="prgrph">-the body never has merely ="trms">instrumental or utilitarian value for the subject ='lgc'>--="ppl">Grosz='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which organs are libidinally invested and the kinds of investments that animate them are functions of the subject's psychical, ="trms">interpersonal, and ="trms">socio="trms">historical ="trms">relations and are malleable and continually changing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*always potentially open to new meanings and investments='strcls'>*

="nms">body image='lgc'>: (to a large extent) function of ="trms">socially shared significance
="prgrph">-(='thdf'>for example) male and female genitals have a particular ="trms">social meaning in western patriarchal cultures that the individual alone or even in groups is unable to transform (-these meanings are deeply etched into and lived as part of the ="nms">body image) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Frankenstein='lgc'>]
='lgc'>==> () very ="trms">different self-perception and very ="trms">different organic body ='lgc'>=/= dichotomous division of sexed bodies

="large lg1" stl="font-size:149%"> ="ppl">Grosz generally finds S="trms">childer useful ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•he ="trms">writes in terms of a sexually neutral subject who experiences cerebral lesions and ="trms">neurological or psychological disorders in a sexually neutral way
="lsts lst1">•he develops a single frame of reference (not so clearly relevant for women and female sexuality)
="lsts lst1">•he does not specify that male experience is taken as the norm and woman's experience is discussed only insofar as it deviates from or compares to this referential framework (='lgc'><== influence that studies of war injuries had on the developement of this field ='lgc'>+ vast disproportion of male subjects in active war)

S="trms">childer='lgc'>: attainment of a stable genital form of sexuality ='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•unification of the ="nms">body image
="lsts lst1">•cohesion of our self-identities
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> phallic='lgc'> = genital phallic sexuality hierarchically ='strcls'>*subordinates the pregenital drives='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= female sexuality is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready genitality multilocational, p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lural, ambiguous, poly="trms">morphous, and ='strcls'>*not clearly able to subordinate the earlier ="trms">stages='strcls'>*

shared ="trms">sociocultural conceptions of bodies in general and shared familial and ="trms">interpersonal fantasy about particular bodies ='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">body image='lgc'>: unifies and coordinates postural, tactile, kinesthetic, and visual sensations ='lgc'>==> (so that these are experienced as) the ='strcls'>*sensations of a subject coordinated into a single space='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***any willful action requires a plan of bodily action ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the function of the ="nms">body image='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this explains my fucked up ="nms">body image!)

="prgrph">-we cannot talk about space whithout ="nms">body image ='lgc'><== the ="nms">body image determines both the localization of sensations in ="trms">different concrete regions of the body and the ="trms">position of the body as a whole within space


="nms">body image ='lgc'>==> “='lgc'>=/=” ='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•figure ='lgc'>=/= ground
="lsts lst1">•central action ='lgc'>=/= peripheral action
="lsts lst1">•(subject's) body ='lgc'>=/= (background of) forces
="lsts lst1">•movement of limbs ='lgc'>=/= corporeal context (of the rest of the body)
="lsts lst1">•outside (skin) ='lgc'>=/= inside (organs ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= process='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•active ="trms">relations ='lgc'>=/= passive ="trms">relationship
="lsts lst1">•="trms">position of subject ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">position of object


moving from a state of a="trms">morphousness to increasing ="trms">differentiation and specialization

a single movement reorients the whole of the body, creating what might be called a gait or posture, an individual and cultural bodily style

appersonization='lgc'>: treatment of one's own body as an outside object='lgc'>:
='lgc'>+ psychical vampirism='lgc'>: identification with the ="trms">symptoms, actions, and fantasies of othe people
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> identification, incorporation, introjection

='thdf'>example of aging
="prgrph">-="nms">body image seems resistant to the changes brought about by aging
="prgrph">-they seem to have aged, whereas the subject feels as if he or she has not
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> condition of continual transformation ='lgc'>+ time lag in the perception and registeration of real changes in the ="nms">body image

="nms">body image='lgc'>: condition of the subject's access to spatiality (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding built environments)='lgc'> = a postural schema of the body ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= mapping a biological body ="trms">onto a psychological domain, providing a kind of ="trms">translation of ="trms">material into conceptual terms='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•radical inseparability of biological from psychical elements
="lsts lst1">•connection between the ="trms">question of sexual ="trms">specificity (biological sexual ="trms">difference)
="lsts lst1">•connection between the ="trms">question of psychical identity


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="ppl">Grosz realizes two human ="trms">perversion in psychoanalysis ="trms">literature='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•male ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetishism (sexual gratification from the use of inanimate partial objects alone)
="lsts lst1">•feminine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exhibitionism, kleptomania

female fetishism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lesbianism

fetishism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">excess of their psychoanalytic descriptions
feminism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> collective psychosis (='lgc'>~ a political disavowal of women's ="trms">social reality as oppressed)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]play='lgc'>: a form of mastery (= a conversion of passivity into activity) ='lgc'>+ a ="trms">technique for the production of pleasure

="ppl">Freud='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•deviation in the sexual object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality
="lsts lst1">•deviation in the sexual aim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transvestism, voyeurism, exhibitionism
fetishism='lgc'>: sexual overvaluation of a part (of the body or an inanimate object)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Grosz='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘overvaluation’ is a characteristic of masculine forms of ="trms">loving='lgc'>]
“="trms">perversion ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">neuroses” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pervert expresses precisely what it is that the ="trms">neurotic represses (='strcls'>*="trms">perversion='lgc'>: to avoid the repression)

sexual normality='lgc'> = copulative nonincestual heterosexuality

fetishist='lgc'>: the boy/="trms">child who is unable to resolve the oedipal conflict in its various alternatives (unable or unwilling to abandon the mother as ="trms">love object)
="prgrph">-he cannot, like the homosexual son, accept ="trms">symbolic castration in order to take on the “feminine” ="trms">position and adopt a passive sexual role in ="trms">relation to his father
="prgrph">-he is not prepared to “pay” for[...]