| Titre | Le corps et le corporéisme aujourd'hui | |
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| Auteur | Jean Maisonneuve | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1976, 17-4 | |
| Page | 551-571 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Jean Maisonneuve : The Body and « Bodyism » Today.
The social psychologist and the sociologist have to inquire into the meaning of the strong recrudescence of interest, values and practices involving the body, at least in the West. This « bodyism » is present in our everday lives, in specialized sectors (religious, artistic) and in the very practices of training centers. After having mentioned the roots of this movement (the theses of Reich, Dadaism), the author examines and discusses its manifestations: « new groups » which reject discourse and analysis (bioenergy, corporeal expression); charismatic currents which practise glossolalia; plastic research and antimodels in the iconic representation of the body. The confrontation of psychoanalytical and sociological interpretations reveals the ambiguity, or the fix, into which bodyism leads, where nostalgia for the primitive and neospiritualism mix together. The body in itself appears elusive once it is both the subject of desire and the object of ideology. Both the indefinite lowering of the thresholds of transgression and the loss of the symbolic in corporal experiences correlate with a state of cultural crisis. After the virulent reawakening of desire, they pose to a society which tends to impugn it the problem of the senses and their regulation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1976_num_17_4_4887 |
