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Antonio Grgic, "ARCHITECTURE AS A SIGN OF RITES OF PASSAGE" "Foucault should be read backwards."
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. |
Koenigsberg: As Freud explained, the ego is first and foremost a body ego. This is where things begin. We project out body--fantasies about the body--into the external world. These experiences and fantasies about the body shape our perceptions. Ideology is a projection of the body and bodily experience. The "body politic"--the nation--is a container for these projections.
Language and discourse are dependent variables. The independent variable is the experience of one's body. Bodily experiences and fantasies about the body "work their way up" to shape and structure ideas and ideologies.|
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