The haunting nature of corporeality
Does "the haunting nature of corporeality" imply "the always and everywhere presence of bodiness"?
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... the scene of the abject is something we are simultaneously attracted to and repulsed by. One could say that this double bind characterises Western attitudes towards the body per se –beneath the veil of the very flesh whose beauty seduces lies a reminder of our mortality and of bodily processes we would prefer to forget about in our transcendent projects of work and morality. Abjection takes this surface seduction one fathom deeper, insisting on the haunting nature of corporeality (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).
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I think she is comparing the seduction with the haunting. The surface seduces, and what she calls the abject, the unpleasant aspects of the living body, also seduces but in a different way. Her "abject" seduces the mind, haunts it.
- I think she is comparing the seduction with the haunting.
- The surface seduces, and what she calls the abject, the unpleasant aspects of the living body, also seduces but in a different way.
- Her "abject" seduces the mind, haunts it.
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I think she is comparing the seduction with the haunting. The surface seduces, and what she calls the abject, the unpleasant aspects of the living body, also seduces but in a different way. Her "abject" seduces the mind, haunts it.
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