Somaestetyka tożsamości – między ciałem a słowem
The Somaesthetics of Identity: Between the Body and the Word

Summary/Abstract: There is no doubt that the modern revaluation of carnality has helped advance both social and individual emancipation. However, an intense focus on the body also involves processes that lead to the exact opposite effect, namely a profound, ‘subcutaneous’ enslavement. This is especially the case when the awakening of body awareness takes the form of a cult of ‘experience for experience’s sake,’ in which the alleged goal of self-knowledge easily degrades into narcissistic self-glorification. Dobrowolski calls for caution, especially when facing individuals who use the essential unrepresentability of bodily sensations as a veil, as they are not willing or unable to subject their experiences to a honest and thought-through analysis founded in a solid theoretical context.

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