How appropriate – I’m writing a paragraph for my paper on the fact that we are our bodies, and I’d just copied out this quote from Waskul and van der Riet (2002: 488) –
“…a person does not ‘inhabit’ a static object body but is subjectively embodied in a fluid, emergent, and negotiated process of being. In this process, body, self, and social interaction are interrelated to such an extent that distinctions between them are not only permeable and shifting but also actively manipulated and configured.”
At the same time, I’m listening to a podcast of Dr Karl on Triple J, and what was one of the first things Dr Karl says:
“You are your body.”
And he starts going on about the connected between the mind and the body in terms of feeling (emotional and physical). Spooky!
Despite this moment of fun, I am seriously struggling to get this thing written.
