Body Images: Embodiment as Intercorporeality

✍ Scribed by Gail Weiss

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on relevant discussions of embodiment in phenomenology, feminist theory, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory and post-colonial theory, Body Images explores the role played by the body image in our everyday existence.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
body images
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Body Image Intercourse A Corporeal Dialogue between Merleau-Ponty and Schilder
2 Splitting the Subject The Interval between Immanence and Transcendence
3 Morphological Fantasies Imaginary Schemas, Corporeal Fluidity, and
Sexual Difference
4 The Abject Borders of the Body Image
5 The Durée of the Techno-Body
6 Écart The Space of Corporeal Difference
7 Bodily Imperatives Toward an Embodied Ethics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index