ABSTRACT
The concept of the 'lived body' brings together a variety of different perspectives within body theory that start with our lived, subjective experience of corporeality. This might include our lived experience of the body as it becomes known to us in health and illness, through our sensual experiences or in relation to 'body parts' such as the mouth and teeth, for example. The concept of kinesthesia refers to a body which is sentient and which moves and engages with the world through a form of corporeal consciousness. The sentient body is often taken for granted within Western cultures that our sense of bodily awareness is primarily structured through five senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision. Pasi Falk argues that vision and hearing (aurality) are considered to be the higher or 'distant' senses, most closely aligned with reason, thought and reflection.
