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The Carnivalesque Politics of a Pandemic Body.
- Source :
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Psychoanalytic Perspectives . 2022, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p46-65. 20p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Covid-19 has affected our lives in innumerable and formerly unimaginable ways. Among its effects is the threat to our identity in terms of broken bodily boundaries, severed social contacts, and a blurring of our group belongings. A response to this mingled physio-social threat has been an unprecedented surge of trans-subjectivity, as a form of intersubjectivity that is both elevated and reduced. In this paper, this phenomenon is explored in its carnivalesque manifestation, expressing itself as both a revolt against state control and an effort to re-appropriate a sense of bodily self and other. I illustrate these ideas with theoretical, visual and clinical materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PANDEMICS
*SOCIAL contact
*SOCIAL interaction
*PRACTICAL politics
*COVID-19
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1551806X
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Psychoanalytic Perspectives
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155216071
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2021.1971013