Abstract

ALLOA, Emmanuel. Reflexiones del cuerpo: sobre la relación entre cuerpo y lenguaje. Eidos [online]. 2014, n.21, pp.200-220. ISSN 1692-8857.

Although in the modern age there were plenty of attempts to overcome the mind-body dualism, its philosophical theories of languages reintroduced it in a subtle but not less effective way. In this article several theorems to think on the materiality of the sign are discussed, and the preponderance, from Kierkegaard to the post-Saussurean structuralism, of thinking the materialization as something necessary but arbitrary in its modality, is shown. The body of language under this understanding is not only that which can be modified, but that which must be modifiable: the corporeality of the utterance must be substitutable in order to preserve the unit of meaning. Nevertheless, in many cases, the meaning comes precisely from the unsubstitutable singularity, from the configuration of the signs in poetry or from the inimitable actor's gestures. The article argues for introducing in this discussion the phenomenological distinction between Kórper (objective body) and Leib (lived body or operating body), which - as Husserl suggested - may also be thought from the difference between the representable and the irrepresentable, between what does not have a constituent role and hence can be substituted, and what allows to be represented by another because it is unsubstitutable.

Keywords : Embodiment; Body; Language; Merleau-Ponty; Husserl; Kierkegaard; Saussure; Deleuze; Materiality.

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