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Body and Sign
For the longest time, sign language was considered a kind of pantomime, a crude iconic code lacking the sophisticated complexities and potentials of language. Its speakers were often relegated...
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Body and Sign–Pinning
I want to pick up on the Body and Sign exchange with parodycenter but from a slightly different perspective. I’ve been re-reading a non-clinical text from 1998 by Hélène Cixous, herself no...
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Body and Sign–Pinning–2
I would like to focus on the title of Cixous’s contribution: Savoir (thank heaven the translators of the text into English chose not to mess around with it!). “Savoir” references both the...
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Body and Sign–Pinning–3
Clinically, we have understood and practiced the pinning of word to place and of psyche to soma as exclusively gendered. We have adamantly organized our notions of law and desire, of history...
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Findings
I begin with the activity Winnicott terms play, the play that unfolds between child and “found” object. My premise is that this activity is not an event that the detached and adult Winnicott has merely...
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desire, briefly
Desire is neither an innately differentiating marker (as Soul or Drive) of what it means to be a subject, nor a predicament suffered by that subject in accordance with the demands of a pre-existing...
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