Samstag, 29. Jun 2013, 12:42
“Beauvoir’s analysis shows, however, that the distinction between activity and passivity is not sufficient to account for the horror of carnality: it is not active body,the body as the instrument of will that is associated with death or decay, but neither is it the body that suffers from the activity of external forces. The object of horror is the body that is internally divided, a living body of a person dominated by involuntary movements and noncontrolled processes. This is the body that displays an alien teleology and upsets human and personal plans and decisions.
In the horrifying mode, the body…