ThLoss is the result of the climactic transformations Cleopatra and Kertesz endure. This loss is the result of an institutional ideal exerting itself upon another. A group forms and creates an ideal identity, which implies an "other" outside of this identity. The group imposes its ideals onto “others” potentially valuable after a transformation to create a like-ness. This is achieved through changing the embodiment in the case of both Fatelessness and Freak’s characters: in Cleopatra’s new Freak-ish body and Kertesz’s bodily scars and emotional distance. Freaks is a struggle between separate institutional ideals for power. The two bodies from the “freaks” (Cleopatra) and the “normal” (Hans) people are representative devices. Cleopatra and Hans allow the other access to themselves through their romantic endeavors. Cleopatra seeks fortune from Hans, upon whom she attempts to poison. She disrespects Hans, seeing only him only for his money without considering his emotions as she would a “normal” person. As Cleopatra’s body is morphed into a bird and Hans does not die from her poison, she is outwitted: she experiences the loss of her agency, while Hans only loses some pride. Kertesz, as an “other,” is forced by the Nazis to endure their mutilation process, based on what their ideals insist im/permissible. Nazi philosophy does not aim to assimilate Jews like Kertesz as “one of [them,]” but it forces embodiment changes to result in a discontinuance – a death. Kertesz does not become "one of [them]" in his embodiment but is indeed changed by them, and left virtually paralyzed by his experience. Cleopatra’s embodiment, though, does aim for her to become “one of [them.]” Her new body fits in a very specific niche – she does not f... ... middle of paper ... ...strength, but a vulnerable weakness. Thus, embodiment is the conscious perception of the “it” in opposition to “me.” “It’ has no feelings or personal agency. “Me,” though, is present. Embodiment is “being a body” and also consciously owning the body. Cleopatra’s change into a Freak is a loss, as it is unintentional. The extent of her power is not competent enough, though. Kertesz’s idea of himself changes as his embodiment does. They digress from existence as a “me” to “it.” “It” is the oppressive other’s view of the different individual: an “it” that “me” (the institution) can gain power over. When the institution gains control of another body, it embodies this body with itself, resulting in a death of the person that previously embodied it. The changes in embodiment result in a loss. An integral affect of active embodiment is personal identity and agency.
Cleopatra’s upbringing, specifically her education, falls under one of the influences which provided her with the necessary ...
...ience. Yet, what can be deduced is that it is there prior to our awareness of that which is there. It is both internal and external. The body on its own provide as the access with which the world is known. This connection of the body with the world is anchored on the reality that the body is there with and in the world. The experiences of the body is not something that you extract or signify, it is there simply because the body is there.
Born in in 69 B.C., Cleopatra VII was esteemed the last ruler of the Macedonian era. Cunning and brave, Cleopatra would later be known for her notorious affairs with notably formidable men in possession of considerable wealth and prestige. She was born into power, but her test would be her capability to maintain it. Her own brothers became her opponents, so she had to fight to remain leader of Egypt. Cleopatra rose to power by forging alliances with leaders of foreign nations in order to back her claim of the Egyptian throne.
In the article, “Inside the Wrong Body” by Carrie Arnold the main topic of study is about interoceptionability in humans. According to Carrie, interoceptionsimply is the knowledge of one’s internal bodily functions (Arnold, 2012). In other words, it is an explanation of an individual’s ability to be able to understand their internal body functions and relate it to the external images. Generally, this topic of study is very important since it helps individuals understand the reason why their bodies. For instance, the study simply tries to educate people on the importance of having high interoceptionability. Hence, informing people that by knowing their inner selves and bodily functions they are capable of having good health because one can recognize any form of hazard to one’s body faster. Certainly, researches decided to investigate this study, so that it could help them understand the reasons why certain people have anorexia nervosa, eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder and most importantly the reason why certain individuals do not accept their outward appearance the way others do. This essay attempts to review and evaluate the article “Inside the Wrong Body” which is about the interoceptionability in humans.
of thought in his 2006 article, “Pressing the flesh: A tension in the study of the embodied,
Foss follows his discussion on the Ptolemy's dynasty by looking at Cleopatra's upbringing and entry to politics. It considers topics, such as, her early years as a child, her characteristic traits and her accession to the throne. A very specific point that Foss emphasizes is Cleopatra connection with Egyptian culture. She combines a greek thirst for knowledge an...
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The snake has acted as a diverse symbol throughout history, representing immortality, evil, femininity, and masculinity. In the book Dream Animals, Marilyn Nissenson and Susan Jonas further reveal the awe that the snake has inspired throughout the centuries, "They [snakes] were believed to mediate between life and death, earth and sky, this world and the next" (19). The snake slithers through our subconscious, evoking varying associations. Cleopatra identified with the snake during her life, and it becomes even more highly symbolic in her death. By examining three movies (DeMille's Cleopatra, Mankiewicz's Cleopatra and the ABC version of Cleopatra) and two dramas (Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Mary Sidney's Tragedy of Antonie) different symbolic representations of the snake emerge along with contrasting depictions of the Queen of the Nile. These varying representations of the asp and slightly contrary portrayals of Cleopatra prove to us that we know very little about the enigmatic ancient Queen.
Maya Angelou once said, “you may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” Jean Paul Sartre devotes his second chapter in Being and Nothingness on ‘The Body,’ demonstrating his historical knowledge, following an influence embedded in Hegel’s theory. In the film, Cleo From 5 To 7 , director Agnès Varda demonstrates a reflective perspective on freeing oneself from the bias of what others view as the ideal vision of beauty. Sartre shows that the being-for-itself, or the human being starts to become more aware of his or her own moral existence, only when he or she sees themselves being perceived by another being for-itself. Sartre says that we become more aware of ourselves in the hands or comparison
3“The busts define the body as both symbolic and imaginary: a cultural means of self-articulation and a psychic image of the self”. In one point of view the effaced busts could also be seen to represent an eclipse of the self. These actions enact the autoerotic and narcissistic procedures of founding a self by internalizing an image of one’s own body. Another way of looking at Antoni’s Lick and Lather is as a pre-symbolic process of identifying oneself through the theory of the imaginary body. The actions she did enact an autoerotic and narcissistic procedure of founding a self by internalizing an image of one’s own body. The process of identification after this process is both productive and destructive of identity, by which it undermines its
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...ribe to. It is about being conscious in a continuous way, and having that consciousness be attached to a specifically identified body.
These premises, both of which are true, support the conclusion of this argument. The first premise states that bodily continuity is required for the function of mental continuity; this is of course true as all mental activity is generated within the brain whose livelihood relies on adequate operation of the body. Additionally, in the second premise it is noted that mental continuity is necessary in defining personal identity. Mental continuity as it relates to personal identity is a combination of memory and consciousness. Memo...
Ania Loomba’s critical essay on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra looks into a variety of themes that are projected by the tragedy. She discusses power struggles between the East and the West, non-traditional gender roles, Cleopatra’s image as a seductive gypsy and racial views of Egypt at the time. There did seem to be a re-occurring stance which I thought was “Antony’s fatal attraction to Cleopatra speaks to contemporary English fears about the erosion of racial identity and masculinity” (Norton 279). Throughout her essay she gives examples of the East representing feminine qualities (Cleopatra) and the West representing masculine (Caesar) qualities (Norton 264), and how the English regarded Egypt or the East as vindictive, seductresses.
This pure openness in which and by which everything can emerge is the absolute understanding by which and in which there may be an otherness. That is why desire it is not that which is experienced; on the contrary, to experience is to desire, that is, to lack, and the empirically experienced desire is the reflection of the shape at the content level. In this sense, the subject does not come up as a subject of an experience but rather exists according to the nature of the scarcity. That is why he is able to understand and experience. The scarcity of a self is the only sense of being that is functional to that pure understanding that it is sometimes called "subjectivity". The absence of self and the acceptance of the other mutually call for each other and, in the end, are two sides of a same way of being. There is no appearance other than that which takes place against a background of a scarcity, which is always a scarcity of self, that is to say, Desire. - What has been said so far regarding the sense of the subject as Desire means, as we have suggested, that the subject comes up in desire. That is to say, he is constituted in himself by this desire. That means that the subject of the correlation can be only thought of through the correlation