Living a 'Phantom Limb

On the Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4832374
AutoresVivian Sobchack (UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume16
Fascículo3
Páginas51-67
Data de publicação2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBody & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1357034x10373407
OpenAlexW2036007626
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas46
Referências citadas8

This article is a phenomenological exploration and description of certain selected aspects of living the specificities and conundrums posed by what is usually, if problematically, called a 'phantom limb'. Using my own body as an 'intimate laboratory', I attend to the dynamics and mutability of the supposed 'phantom', both during the post-operative period of the above-the-knee amputation of my left leg as well as after I began to use and incorporate my prosthetic leg. Throughout, I explore the reversible aspects of my two legs as 'phantom' and 'real', present and absent, and visible and invisible - paying attention, as well, to the lived and linguistic sense we make of our bodies in 'parts' and our bodies as 'whole

Aesthetics · Amputation · Artificial limbs · Epistemology · Imaging phantom · Phantom limb · Prosthesis · Empathy and Medical Education · Medicine · Neurology and Historical Studies · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies · Surgery