The Water in the Glass

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The Water in the Glass is written by Nick Totton and published by Other Press (NY). It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1892746212 (ISBN 10) and 9781892746214 (ISBN 13).

What is body? Most of us probably feel we have some intuitive grasp of the question. It takes philosophers and psychoanalysts to throw this into doubt. The doubt is often fruitful; but it can make us wonder whether we have bodies, whether we are bodies. This book is an attempt to refresh our thinking around the issues -- suggesting among other things that our doubts about the body, our sense of alienation from it, themselves reflect a problem of a psychoanalytic nature. The principle aim of this book is to suggest ways in which we can reassure ourselves, on every level from the primal to the metaphysical (and really the two are closely linked), that we in fact are bodies; that it is with, in and through our bodies that we both feel and think; and that this way of experiencing is profoundly 'psychoanalytic', and in fact restitutive of something important which has gone from psychoanalysis.