SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Abjection, Existential Crisis, Impossible Object
1 Dec 2018
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The painless dentist content violence and the abject - existential crisis self, body, abject - holding on the abject and culture - defending against https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=mzi12whwvag https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=k1phr_mlnim&list=rdmzi12whwva g&index=2. Pain: the generalised condition of being alive, a state of sensation, a sensual monitoring of the body, a care or awareness of its health and its status, an attention to what are sometimes known as raw feels" (elkins 23) Violence: deliberate infliction of bodily harm attacks sentient body, perpetrator harms victim experience, self as object of violence, event, self as witness to violence. Calibrated violence? excessive violent acts against bodies judicial perspective: instrumental violence self-defence = calibrated violence response to prevent an impending injury use of force required to repel the attack. non-deadly/deadly to match level of attack. Https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=zqhw6z8y4gi atrocity excess cruel and violent act out of proportion. Not just to kill but to purge, cleanse, desecerate, dehumanise http://www. thesun. co. uk/sol/homepage/news/2525248/fou. It lies there, quite close, but it cannot be assimilated (kristeva 1982:
