Volatile Bodies

<p><i>Volatile Bodies </i>is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivity psychological depth and inferiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of the body (Freud Lacan Merleau-Ponty Schilder Nietzsche Foucault Lingis and Deleuze) who while freeing the body from its subordination to the mind are nonetheless unable to accomodate the specificities of women's bodies.<br><br>This book explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms - psychosis hypochondria neurological disturbances perversions and sexual deviation - and most particularly the enigmatic status of body fluids and the female body.</p>