Stroke, Body Image, and Self Representation by Catherine Morin

Author:Catherine Morin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Notes

1 The findings of this research have been previously published in Morin, Pradat-Diehl, Robain, Bensalah and Perrigot (2003).

2 Unlike hemispheric lesions, lesions in the posterior part of encephala (bulb, protuberance, cerebral peduncles and cerebellum) do not usually cause cognitive impairment.

3 The choice of personal pronouns [such as the alternation between je and on in French] is perhaps not always an unconscious operation, as illustrated by the following example. A patient relates his reaction immediately after breaking his knee: “So, the accident, well, it was not a disaster, in the sense that … when one was hit by the car … well it logically followed, it was not unexpected when one … um … I found myself on the ground, well the … what one immediately looked at was whether the toes could move, the ankle could move, then one noticed that it was at the knee that there was no movement anymore. Well, so one thought: ‘it’s here … there’s some damage, and that’s it’, but it wasn’t a panic, right … let’s say that it was almost unavoidable, well, one thought: ‘oh well, it’s part of the job.’” The psychology student interviewing the patient then asks: “When you say ‘one’, who do you mean?” The patient answers: “One is me. Because – it’s a thing I’ve often explained – because I had a father who always was very egocentric, we used to call him ‘Mr I’, so contrary to this I would say ‘one’ when speaking of myself.

4 [Meaning, she has got bed sores – Translator’s Note]

5 To illustrate the difficulties of using the terms subjectivity and enunciation outside their linguistic or psychoanalytic context, we can look at the example of two contrasting fragments, one from the work of the writer Georges Perec, the other from a psychoanalytic article. In the first example, Perec (1990) is trying to convince his friends to become involved in the creation of a literary journal; as a former parachutist, he explains to them what it is like to jump from an aircraft. He says: “The fear was all the greater insofar as I knew what was going to follow […] and as you move forward, you gradually lose your awareness of yourself […] then, at a particular moment, one has doubts, there’s nothing you can do about it, you ask yourself – well, it’s not you, it’s I. I have always asked myself why I jumped.” The subject “Georges Perec” manifests himself not only in the movement from you (i.e., a member of a group of soldiers differentiated only by their rank in the file) to I (“I jumped”), from the present to the past tense, but also through the reference to parachuting: When, as a little boy, his mother had to leave him to save his life, she gave him, together with his birth certificate, a comic book with the picture of a parachutist on the cover (Perec, 1993). The words of a psychotic subject, quoted by Marcel Czermak in Passions de l’Objet (2001), have a very differ ent resonance.

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