The wounded body
Subtitle: remembering the markings of flesh
By: Dennis Patrick Slattery.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Body, Human, in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Mimesis in literature
Description: "An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison.

Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the experience of the one who is wounded."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.