The Body as Touch: Speaking Death and Dying in Queer Theory and Religion

This article examines the possibility of feeling the body's deadly touch via speech. Beginning with my own experiences as a hospital chaplain, the article explores psychological and political theories of the separation between the ego and the body and the collapse between the two in death. The...

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Autore principale: Coble, Richard (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Pubblicazione: 2015
In: Pastoral psychology
Anno: 2015, Volume: 64, Fascicolo: 5, Pagine: 621-634
Notazioni IxTheo:NBE Antropologia
NCF Etica della sessualità
RG Cura pastorale
ZD Psicologia
Altre parole chiave:B Julia Kristeva
B Jean-Luc Nancy
B Touch
B Leo Bersani
B Hospital chaplains
B LANGUAGE & languages
B Pastoral Care
B Queer Theory
B Death Drive
B Lee Edelman
B Religione
B Death
B Dying
B Body
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Riepilogo:This article examines the possibility of feeling the body's deadly touch via speech. Beginning with my own experiences as a hospital chaplain, the article explores psychological and political theories of the separation between the ego and the body and the collapse between the two in death. The final two sections examine contrasting theories that seek to bring bodily dissolution to speech. I contrast theorists Lee Edelman and Leo Bersani with the formulations of religious language by Julia Kristeva and Jean-Luc Nancy to examine faith's ambiguous potential to bring death to speech amidst the realities of dying bodies.
ISSN:1573-6679
Comprende:Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11089-014-0630-4