“When Bellmer describes the body ‘as comparable to a sentence that invites us to disarticulate it,’ he gives us the ideal tool for distinguishing who we truly are from the fictions on which our identities are socially crafted.”

Jon Graham

This I *did* know! I’ve read most of Vygotsky’s published work and a few studies that situate his work within the broader history of Soviet psychology.

I didn’t know that. Neat.

Incidentally, I’ve also been trying to convince some of my friends at the university to read Ilyenkov’s “Our Schools Must Teach How to Think” so it’s pretty cool to see Ilyenkov shouted out as central in this interview!

I’ve been rereading all the dialectical biology stuff lately (so as to survive the ideological onslaught of the neuropsychoanalysis class in taking right now) so these recommendations are very welcome!

Oh this looks real cool! I’m going to have to check this out too!

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Thanks! Will definitely check this out!

@zaraworkercouncils.bsky.social based on our prior conversations about psychoanalytic theory and phenomenology I feel like you might appreciate these two articles!

Here’s how Langer maps these concepts on to the work of Lacan and Winnicott.

I haven’t really encountered Gallagher’s work before but the presentation of it in this article (its discussion of the relationship between body schema and body image) seems very generative to me.