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The Wounded Body

The Wounded Body Remembering the Markings of Flesh - SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture

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Publisher's Synopsis

An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded.

Book information

ISBN: 9780791443828
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 809.9335
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 293
Weight: 476g
Height: 152mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 25mm