Living a 'Phantom Limb
On the Phenomenology of Bodily Integrity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4832374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vivian Sobchack (UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 51-67 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x10373407 |
| OpenAlex | W2036007626 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Embodied practices of prosthesis
Living with a partly amputated face, doing facial difference
Beyond the cyborg
After the rehabilitation unit
Après l’unité de rééducation
Expanding Relationships between Dance, Disability, and Prostheses
We Have Never Been Latourian
Listening to Voices
The queer logics of sex/desire and the ‘missing’ discourse of gender
Dressing down to fit in
Corporeal realism and victimology
Modes of mobility
Re-imagining Embodiment
Introduction
Missing Phenomenological Accounts
Obstinate fatties
Posthumanism, subjectivity, autobiography
Seeing and feeling in VR
Bodily extensions and performance
Bodily Changes
What Do You Want to Do With the Leg?” A Critical Narrative Review of the Understandings and Implications of Disposal in the Context of Limb Amputations
The pursuit of “restrictive” enhancement
Body Boundary Work
The challenges of new bio psycho socialities
Living With Injury
Living with Spinal Cord Stimulation
Triathlon Bodies in Motion
Intense Embodiment
Don't touch/push me!' From disruption to intimacy in relations with one's wheelchair
Dancing Practices
Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics
Phantom Penis
The Challenges of New Biopsychosocialities
Body Modification and Trans Men
Disposalscapes
Being Touched from the Inside
Immunity, Biopolitics and Pandemics
Fetal-Maternal Intra-action
Body Image, Prostheses, Phantom Limbs
Corporeality, Sadomasochism and Sexual Trauma
Exoskeletons, Rehabilitation and Bodily Capacities
Reverse-Engineering Touch
Estranged Bodies
Bodily Integrity and the Surgical Management of Intersex
Noise as Dysappearance
The sensing eye
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |