ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |6 pages

{Introduction}

chapter 1|32 pages

Body Image Intercourse

A Corporeal Dialogue between Merleau-Ponty and Schilder

chapter 2|26 pages

Splitting the Subject

The Interval between Immanence and Transcendence

chapter 3|22 pages

Morphological Fantasies

Imaginary Schemas, Corporeal Fluidity, and Sexual Difference

chapter 4|16 pages

The Abject Borders of the Body Image

chapter 5|14 pages

The Durée of the Techno-Body

chapter 6|12 pages

Écart

The Space of Corporeal Difference

chapter 7|36 pages

Bodily Imperatives

Toward an Embodied Ethics