What does cadaverize mean?
Cadaverize means To remove the life from or to make cadaverous..
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To remove the life from or to make cadaverous..
Yet it is only by having the analyst "cadaverize" herself, as Lacan said, by making her "a total [and therefore absent] presence," that space can be created for the subject's assumption of her own story, for her coming to terms with her own desire.
In a way, the burial marker is an ideal metaphor for the signifiers that simultaneously immortalize and cadaverize the subject, situating subjectivity outside the material flux of transient, tangible being by condensing its essential identity into a different "material" register altogether (i.e., into elements of a symbolic order that both precedes the individuals existence and persists after his or her vanishing).
The desire to analyse the 'absolute eye' and its tendency to 'cadaverize' has also been a central concern in work by the white South African artist Penny Siopsis.
I have noted that throughout La vie la mort Derrida calls attention to this "programming machine," a machine that operates effectively to auto-reproduce biological, political, and pedagogical sameness and that in so doing, attempts to reify (“cadaverize”) the living body and the living body of language (for this, see especially Derrida's “Nietzsche and the Machine”).
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Cadaverize means To remove the life from or to make cadaverous..
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Yet it is only by having the analyst "cadaverize" herself, as Lacan said, by making her "a total [and therefore absent] presence," that space can be created for the subject's assumption of her own story, for her coming to terms with her own desire.
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