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Antonio Grgic, "ARCHITECTURE AS A SIGN OF RITES OF PASSAGE:"
| According to Richard Koenigsberg, the individual ego tends to identify itself with the national one; he claims that human beings exist in a symbolic relation with their societies. Individuals identify very profoundly and our ego may become one with the national ego. According to Koenigsberg, Foucault should be read backwards: it is not the discourse that shapes the body; instead, the body is a source of discourse. Body politic is not a mere metaphor, but expresses the fact that the nation is experienced as the body. |
Language is the dependent variable, the body the independent variable. Bodily experiences and fantasies about the body "work their way up" to shape and structure ideas and ideologies.
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