ABSTRACT

Feminist theories of embodiment, particularly those that have emerged from corporeal feminism, have been influenced by the psychoanalytic distinction between the hysterical body and the anatomical body [Wilson, Elizabeth. 2015. Gut Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press]. Following Freud and his concepts of the body ego and somatic compliance, psychoanalytic assertions that the way the body is lived is psychically informed have proven productive to feminist aims. Freud proposes the notion of somatic compliance as the explanatory rationale for hysterical symptomatology’s strange ability to express itself in a manner incommensurable with medical explanation. This article opens and extends those questions raised by the anatomical body that originally perplexed Freud in the case of Dora. In particular, it queries the notion of somatic compliance by asking: what is the character of anatomy such that it can defy and revise its own apparent limits? How can the hysterical body achieve feats that the non-hysterical body cannot? And lastly, what does it mean to comply somatically? In this way, the article responds to the anti-biologism that continues to feature in much feminist scholarship on corporeality.

摘要

女权主义的化身理论，尤其是那些从肉体女权主义中出现的理论，受到了歇斯底里身体和解剖身体之间的精神分析区别的影响 [Wilson, Elizabeth. 2015.直觉女权主义. 达勒姆：杜克大学出版社]。遵循弗洛伊德和他的身体自我和躯体顺应性的概念，精神分析断言身体的生活方式是心理上知情的，这已被证明对女权主义目标是富有成效的。弗洛伊德提出躯体依从性的概念作为歇斯底里症状学以一种与医学解释无法相称的方式表达自己的奇怪能力的解释理由。这篇文章打开并扩展了解剖身体提出的那些问题，这些问题最初在多拉的案例中让弗洛伊德感到困惑。特别是，它通过询问以下问题来质疑躯体顺应性的概念：解剖学的特征是什么，以至于它可以无视和修改自己的明显限制？歇斯底里的身体如何才能达到非歇斯底里的身体所不能达到的壮举？最后，身体上的遵守是什么意思？通过这种方式，这篇文章回应了在许多关于肉体的女权主义学术研究中继续存在的反生物主义。