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Tallis in Wonderland

“What A Possessive!”: On Being Embodied

Raymond Tallis takes a good look at himself.

“‘My weight.’ What a possessive!”
Paul Valéry

The relationship between your columnist and what he (and everyone else) is inclined to call ‘his’ body is far from simple, notwithstanding that when you point to the latter you also point to the former. Readers may recall a recent column, ‘On Being (Roughly) Here’ in PN 106, in which I touched on this. I’d like to pick up here some of the trailing threads of its unfinished – indeed unfinishable – business.

In particular I want to focus on what I referred to as our being ‘embodied subjects’.

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