Realisation of the Body from Inner Experience

2015 ◽  
pp. 110-117
Author(s):  
C. J. van der Horst-Oosterhuis
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Inner Experience

Sartre and somatics for the pedagogy of movement in contemporary dance

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Maisie Beth James ◽  
Caroline Stockman
Keyword(s):  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Learning Outcome ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Traditional Dance ◽  
Individual Potential

Drawing on somatic practice, psychology, philosophy and the dance experience, this article operationalizes Sartre’s ideological response to movement pedagogy. The ‘thisness’ experience of embodiment during traditional dance styles negatively impacts on the realization of our body’s somatic potential. However, Sartre’s ‘body-for-itself’ mode can be stimulated with certain somatic practices, due to the concentration on the inner experience and sensations present in the body. In this sense, the body becomes a learning outcome in itself, through a deep and respectful connection with the dancer’s inner being. Pedagogically, this combination of Sartre’s theory with holistic techniques of the self, specifically the fundamental principles of Feldenkrais and dance literacy, can benefit the realization of individual potential during dance, and optimize positive embodiment. This article discusses initial materializations of the learning experiences of the dance student, informed by Sartre’s thinking on embodiment, and a theoretical discussion of the pedagogical implications of Sartre’s ideas for somatic pedagogy in contemporary dance.

Prayer as a metacognitive activity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya M Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Mental Content ◽  
The Body ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Intense Absorption ◽  
Metacognitive Activity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The central act of prayer involves paying attention to inner experience—to thoughts, images, and the awareness of the body—and treating those sensations as important in their own right, rather than as distractions from the everyday business of living. There are many metacognitive consequences of this basic act. Its overt features include the redirecting of attention, which cognitively restructures mental content, leading the person who prays to focus on positive topics like gratitude, to set achievable goals, and to hope. Prayer’s less obvious metacognitive features include an invitation to absorption or being caught up in the act of imagination, which makes what must be imagined feel more real. The light trance associated with intense absorption is the result of a metacognitive act that alters the relationship of those who pray to their own mental domain. In short, we should reconceive prayer as a fundamentally metacognitive act.

Altered inner body perception in anorexia and bulimia nervosa: a systematic review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clelia Malighetti ◽  
Santino Gaudio ◽  
Daniele Di Lernia ◽  
Marta Matamala-Gomez ◽  
Giuseppe Riva
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Vestibular System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Body Perception ◽  
Crucial Feature ◽  
New Treatments

Inner body perception is a multisensory type of body perception that relates primarily to interoception, proprioception, and the vestibular system. Inner body perception may be disturbed in people with eating disorders (EDs), causing distortions or mismatches between how the body is perceived and how the body physically is. Despite this, there has been no systematic review that directly investigate inner body perception, and in particularly across anorexia and bulimia nervosa. To address these gaps, we conducted a systematic review using PRISMA guidelines. Twenty-six studies were included. Deficits in interoception and proprioception were observed across anorexia and bulimia nervosa, suggesting that alteration of inner body perception might be a crucial feature of eating disorders. From this perspective, inner body deficits in anorexia and bulimia nervosa represent a promising field that needs to be further explored, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments that enhance the role of the inner experience as a therapeutic instrument.

scholarly journals Human corporeality in Georges Bataille’s heterology

2020 ◽  
pp. 375-383
Author(s):  
Svetlana A. Gorchakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Body Experience ◽  
Affirmation Of Life ◽  
Nature Awareness ◽  
Extreme Edge

In the heterology of G. Bataille, a person appears as a being doomed to death and revealing gaps in the depths of himself. That is why the idea of human corporeality turns out to be connected with the idea of inner experience, which represents a movement to the «edge of the possible» and through which death is revealed. It is death and the ability to discover it that makes a person who he is, affirming the transgressiveness of the human body and human being. Death, being absolutely heterogeneous, constitutes a person as a self-that-dies, revealing the gap that comprises its nature. Awareness of death leads to a feeling of eroticism, which contains the simultaneous affirmation of life in combination with the acceptance of death. Moreover, death is the semantic core of eroticism. The human is a «gaping hole» opening wide to the other, and all his being presupposes discontinuity and ecstasy, which means that only excess puts a man on the edge, allowing him to transcend all boundaries. In this case, the inner experience turns out to be in many ways a body experience, because the heterogeneous is constantly manifested in the ultimate experiences of the body and the ultimate manifestations of the human corporeality, where horror and lust, attractiveness and disgust are fused together. Human experience is the experience of the limits and gaps in which a person seeks to get beyond his limits, to surpass his anthropomorphic and body boundaries in an act of self-waste. Thus, being on the extreme edge, the human discovers death through transgression, but exactly in the understanding and acceptance of death he acquires true being and overcomes his own corporeality.

Bed Tricks and Fantasies of Facelessness: All’s Well that Ends Well and Macbeth in the Dark

2019 ◽  
pp. 132-160
Author(s):  
Devin Byker
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The Face

Shakespeare’s bed tricks hinge on humans without faces. In such dark environs, one is unable to perceive the face of another, and therefore unable to recognize, to acknowledge, or even to deny. But what are the consequences of imagining a faceless human? Out of what desires or temptations might a fantasy of facelessness emerge? Wittgenstein repeatedly drew on the face as a symbol of the interconnected nature of inner experience and outer expression, culminating in his assertion that “The face is the soul of the body.” By saying this, he challenges a particular fantasy of privacy that would seek to see the face as the external machinery of inner feelings. According to such a fantasy, doing away with faces might resolve the threat of duplicity through the erasure of human expression altogether. In this essay, Devin Byker explores how Measure, All’s Well, and Macbeth, through comic and tragic modes, investigate fantasies of facelessness—efforts to disavow the face and thus to alter the demands of human relations. Through such drama, Shakespeare explores both the epistemological and ethical force of the claims of the face and the consequences of a fantasy that wishes to ignore such claims.

scholarly journals The Foundations of Mieczysław Albert Krąpiec’s Metaphysical Personalism

1970 ◽  
Vol 19/1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-96
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Gudaniec
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Integral Element ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
New Vision ◽  
Nature And Society

This paper discusses the cardinal points of Krąpiec’s metaphysical personalism, in the context of a synthetic reading of his most important works in philosophical anthropology. A new vision of Krąpiec’s thought is proposed, via a discussion of the metaphysical foundations of his anthropology and by emphasizing his notion of the three stages or phases in which personhood reveals itself. Each of these emerges as an integral element when outlining a conception of persons and when demonstrating the overriding importance of the issue of personhood for philosophical anthropology. Firstly, personhood manifests itself in the inner experience of one’s own subjectivity as something universally shared by human beings. Next, this fact is itself shown to be grounded metaphysically in the soul as an immaterial principle organizing the body. As a result, persons emerge as substantial rational beings. An examination of the potentialities of such beings then reveals the transcendence of persons in respect of nature and society, together with their self-fulfillment in intellectual and moral acts, in interpersonal relations, and—ultimately—in their relatedness to the Person of the Absolute. Krąpiec’s personalism relies upon classical Thomistic metaphysics, and presents a person’s life in universal terms as a process culminating in the actively experienced moment of death.

The Experience

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Nurit Stadler
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Inner Experience ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
Canonical Texts

In this chapter the author analyzes the ritualistic inner experience in female sacred places. The author shows the centrality of the body and the “ritual of the body in motion.” As mentioned in the book’s introduction, in the Holy Land, places of veneration and rituals are based on canonical texts or mythologies of particular saints. As such, the assumption was that rituals are a product of texts and their translation into action. However, this chapter shows different dynamics of these rituals. Although the canon and its physical manifestations are robust, it is mostly “the body in motion” that shapes the experience.

Representing utility and deploying the body

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spurrett
Keyword(s):  
Functional Activity ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
The Many

Abstract Comprehensive accounts of resource-rational attempts to maximise utility shouldn't ignore the demands of constructing utility representations. This can be onerous when, as in humans, there are many rewarding modalities. Another thing best not ignored is the processing demands of making functional activity out of the many degrees of freedom of a body. The target article is almost silent on both.

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