Inflecting Pain: Expression, Acknowledgement and Interpersonal Space

Hildur Kalman; Naomi Scheman

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Inflecting Pain: Expression, Acknowledgement and Interpersonal Space

In: At the Edge of Being: The Aporia of Pain

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Hildur Kalman

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Pages:: 37–46

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004399228_004

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Starting from the connection and tension between the expression and the acknowledgement of pain, we explore the interpersonal space between the two: how it is that pain’s expression and acknowledgement are always inflected by the space between the one in pain and the other, and how, in turn, pain’s expression and acknowledgement inflect that space. To inflect, grammatically, is to mark words—by gender, number, tense, mood—indicating a constitutive difference: our words are always inflected somehow or other. In this sense, the expression or suppression of pain, its being acknowledged or ignored, marks interpersonal space and is marked by it. Through some examples, we raise questions about what we learn about interpersonal space—when that space inflects and is inflected by pain. We are especially interested in the absence of expression and/or acknowledgement, in the ignoring of pain and the constraints on acknowledgement. Examples that will be discussed are: i) ignoring pain, love-making and intimate space, ii) inflicting pain, professional caring, and professional space, iii) witnessing pain face-to-face, and finally iv) witnessing pain at a distance.

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At the Edge of Being: The Aporia of Pain

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004399228

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 26 Sep 2012

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