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I S S U E N O . 58 [September 2015]
Anja
Stukenbrock
Intercorporeal Phantasms:
Kinesthetic Alignment with Imagined Bodies in Self-Defense Trainings
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paper illuminates a dimension of intercorporeality that has hitherto been
neglected: imagination as a genuinely human capacity to displace ourselves
from the actual phenomenal sphere, to communicate with and about absent
phenomena and to embody and incorporate them in our involvement with the
world and with others. Based on corpus of 12 hours of video recordings of
self-defence trainings for girls, the paper examines the enactment and
imagination of intercorporeality in jointly created scenarios of danger and
assault.
Theoretically, the paper integrates two different frameworks that both offer
parts of the answer I am going to argue for, the concept of
intercorporeality on the one hand, and deixis theory on the other hand.
Whereas the concept of intercorporeality is concerned with the question of
mutual incorporation as a prereflexive interactive phenomenon independent of
or below the level of conscious representation, deixis constitutes the
unavoidable link between language, my body and the body of the other,
between representation and interaction. In taking deixis as a linguistic
anchor, my paper strives to bring grammar to the analysis of
intercorporeality. In revisiting deixis in the light of intercorporeality
allows us to begin thinking about deixis as a grammatically sedimented way
of integrating perspectivity and subjectivity as intersubjectively and
intercorporeally created embodied phenomena.
Keywords:
joint imagination, deixis,
incorporeality, multimodal conversation analysis
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