[...]e 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'>='lgc'>==> () very ="trms">different self-perception and very ="trms">different organic body ='lgc'>=/= dichotomous division of sexed bodies

="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'><='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'>='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'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">body image='lgc'>: unifies and coordinates postural, tactile, kinesthetic, and visual sensations ='lgc'>='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!)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="prgrph">-we cannot talk about space whithout ="nms">body image ='lgc'><='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'>=/=” ='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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:137%"> 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 his desire by facing the oedipal prohibition (give up the mother or lose the penis) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetish='lgc'>: a token of triumph over the threat of castration (and a protection against it) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{makes women tolerable as sexual objects ='lgc'>+ saves the fetishist from becoming a homosexual='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]fetish='lgc'>: (a substitute for or) ='strcls'>*a talisman of the phallus='strcls'>*

(most significant one in the ="trms">child's ="trms">erotic life ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) mother's phallus='lgc'>: that which endows her with power and ="trms">authority

fetish ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of both preserving his belief in the missing maternal phallus and at the same time accepting her castration and the possibility of his own

disavowal ='lgc'>=/= repression (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">neurosis) ='lgc'>=/= negation (denial) ='lgc'>=/= repudiation (foreclosure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> psychosis)

negation='lgc'>: a provisional lifting of repression (not through acceptance, the repressed contents are ="trms">verbally and ="trms">affectively negated) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> affirmation='lgc'>: the process of registering or fixing a drive to an ideational content (signifying the former by the latter), both the condition of signification and of repression

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="ppl">Grosz on ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari

problem with “becoming woman”
the process of becoming-X ='lgc'>[marginal, woman, non-western, etc.='lgc'>] means nothing as a strategy if one is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready X ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">question of ="trms">difference, ="trms">specificity

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ='strcls'>*desire
='strcls'>*machinic functions
='strcls'>*assemblages
='strcls'>*rhizomatics
='strcls'>*cartography
='strcls'>*intensities
='strcls'>*speed
='strcls'>*planes

appropriation (recuperation) of the ="trms">positions and struggles of X ='lgc'>==risks='lgc'>='lgc'>==> depoliticizing ="trms">aestheticizing struggles and political challenges crucial to the survival and self-de="trms">finition of X

problem with becoming
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari are invested in a) romantic elevation of models of psychosis, ="trms">schizophrenia, and madness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•ignore the very real pain and torment of individuals
="lsts lst1">•raise pathology to an unlivable, unviable ideal for others


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> our reservations and suspicions (in ="nms">apass when we face each other)

="ppl">Deleuzian rhizomatics ='and'>& feminist theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reversal of ="ppl">Platonism='lgc'>: “ideal ='lgc'>=/= real” (op="trms">position ="trms">integral to Western thought)


rhizomatics, cartography, ="trms">schizoanalysis (deconstruction, grammatology) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> clear the ground of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical concepts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (others) may be able to devise their own knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges

four “illusions” of re="trms">presentation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•identity
="lsts lst1">•op="trms">position
="lsts lst1">•analogy
="lsts lst1">•resemblance
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becoming (beyond the logic and confines of being)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> multiplicity ='lgc'>[defined by the outside='lgc'>] (beyond doubling or multicentering of proliferating subjects)

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="ppl">Deleuzian-="ppl">Foucauldian understanding of politics theorizes in a clearer and more direct form than ='strcls'>*rival (alternative)[...]