A Body, Undone by Christina Crosby

Author:Christina Crosby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2016-06-08T16:00:00+00:00

This complicated process is what we ask all toddlers to control, using the euphemism of “accident” to name any failure. The child nonetheless knows that an accident is not neutral, but is rather her responsibility, to be chalked up to her account. Freud emphasizes this understanding and the slowly advancing control the child gains. Indeed, psychoanalytic theory goes further back still, to the raw “hommelette,” in Lacan’s play on words, the unformed infant whose brain is still growing when she is born, and whose cranium is not yet whole, who slowly, slowly grows up being handled—being cooked, as it were—by adults. Her body is repeatedly marked out for her nascent contemplation by the special attention given to all of her orifices. The child successfully trained to use the toilet is on her way to understanding the adult world and its mysterious imperatives and rewards.

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