The Body and Mind

• Published in: Weaving Words and Binding Bodies pp. 195 - 230
• Main Author: Cavell, Megan
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press 07.04.2016
• Subjects: Afterlife; Age; Anatomy; Arts; Biological sciences; Biology; Biometrics; Biostatistics; Body tissues; Concept of mind; Connective tissues; Consciousness theory; Correctional institutions; Correctional system; Criminal justice; Criminal law; Diseases; Doctrinal theology; Eschatology; Health care industry; Health information; Health sciences; Hell; Human physical characteristics; Language; Language acts; Law; Lexicology; Linguistics; Literary genres; Literature; Medical conditions; Metaphysics; Monopsychism; Philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Phrasemes; Phraseology; Poetry; Prisons; Religion; Religious poetry; Riddles; Sinew; Soul; Systematic theology; Textual collocation; Theology; Wordplay

Given the anthropocentric view of the world that the preceding analyses of object-construction and physical constriction have made evident, it is unsurprising that such imagery is also applied to the internal ties governing human life. Like objects whose structural bonds hold them together, the body...