At 8:59 PM +0100 5/2/99, M.G.Peckitt wrote:
> If the body of of the disabled person could be viewed as
> sexles or "Abject" to evoke Julie Kristeva and therefore
> void of the most obvious pleasure is there a theory of
> Disability Aesthetics?
With such a range of disabiities, I don't know how apt this generalization
["the body of of the disabled person"] is. Similarly, the disabiilties with
which I am most familiar are those which are associated with a high degree
of physical pain, yet, that, too, is not generalizable to other
disabilities which perhaps are more concerned with function than with pain.
Severe, chronic pain may have associated with it a sense of betrayal by
one's own body, i.e. "the body as torture chamber." This torture chamber,
clearly, sounds not pleasurable. Yet, for many with chronic pain, or other
chronic disabling illnesses, there is a high degree of variability from
day-to-day (and within a day). The sense of pleasure, then, may be
state-dependent to "on a good day."
In connection,
Judith Winter
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