Perverse ethics: The body, gender and intersubjectivity  

Oleh:

Merlin, Lara

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 4 no. 2 (Aug. 2003), page 165–178.
Topik: body; ethics; difference; intersubjectivity; perversity; polymorphous
Fulltext: 165FT42.pdf (63.64KB)

Isi artikel

This article explores the possibility of an ethical intersubjective relationship through the reconfiguration of the body. The violence of Western culture derives from a particular gendered fantasy of bodily organization. The Western body is constituted through a fear of lack and of loss, or, in psychoanalytic terms, of castration. The subject defined by castration attempts to defend itself against these dual threats by folding in upon itself, thereby precluding any relation with an other. The belief in lack and its partner, scarcity, informs the socio-politicalstructures that mark the current era. However, there are other ways of imagining the body. By re-imagining the body, it becomes possible, not to avoid loss, but rather to alter its meaning. This act allows for a nonappropriative intersubjective relation to come into being.

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