Body-and Image-space by Weigel Sigrid

Author:Weigel, Sigrid.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published: 2011-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

EMBODIMENT AND DISEMBODIMENT

This tendency to forget the circumstance that in the case of allegory one has to do with translation into another language corresponds with an approach that is primarily interested in one side alone in the constitution of allegorical meaning—namely, in the illustration or symbolization of abstract, conceptual notions, which may also be understood as an embodiment of immaterial ideas. In the meantime, the reverse side of this process remains outside the field of vision: namely, disembodiment, such as takes place in respect of the material and of the images which are used —and consumed—in the allegorical representation. In this approach, too, then, a certain indifference is expressed towards the other in ‘other speech’.

Taking the example of Baroque Trauerspiel, Benjamin elaborated precisely this tendency towards the devaluation of things material which, in the allegorical representation, always become ‘something other’.6 For him, there was a connection between allegory and practices of stripping naked sensuous things (Entblöβung der sinnlichen Dinge) (GS I, 360; see OGT 185), of rigidification, dismemberment, and deprivation of life:

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