L’imaginaire des corps dissidents et altérés entre effroi et fascination

Abstract

Adrien Cascarino L'imaginaire des corps dissidents et altérés entre effroi et fascination The Imaginary of Dissident and Altered Bodies. Between Fright and Fascination Abstract: Every individual and every body is born and shaped in a society where a number of representations, including bodily representations, already exist. What happens then when a body appears whose biological "real" is too different from the pre-existing representations? What are the effects of this hiatus on both the body and the representation of the body? Reactions to a non-normative body often aim at shaping the reality to make it comply with the representations rather than the opposite. As a result, non-normative bodies often result in either denial of reality, surgical action or categorization of the non-normative body as "monstrous" or "disabled". The rigidity of bodily imaginaries is partly based on the fright and uncanny feeling caused by the resurgence of the primary fantasy of a fragmented body.