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The uncanny body: from medical to aesthetic abnormality

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:56 authored by Alexander Kozin
In this essay I explore a possibility of experiential synthesis of the medicalized abnormal body with its aesthetic images. A personal narrative about meeting extreme abnormality serves as an introduction into theorizing aesthetic abnormality. The essay builds its argument on the phenomenological grounds; I therefore approach corporeality with Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In turn, Max Ernst introduces an aesthetic frame for the subsequent examination of uncanny surreality. Two exemplars of the surreal body, Joel Witkin’s “Satiro” and Don DeLillo’s “Body Artist,” intend to substantiate the preceding theoretic. The study shows how the encounter with the abnormal embodiment may suspend normalized modes of constitution to provoke uncanny experiences

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Janus Head

ISSN

1521-9194

Publisher

Trivium Publications

Issue

2

Volume

9

Page range

463-484

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-01-12

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