Comments for Text Practice Performance http://tppblog.wordpress.com The journal of the Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies at the University of Texas at Austin Tue, 12 May 2009 13:16:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on About by tppblog http://tppblog.wordpress.com/about/#comment-64 tppblog Tue, 12 May 2009 13:16:41 +0000 #comment-64 Vicky - TPP article rights are author owned, so go ahead with republishing, and congratulations! -TPP Editors Vicky -

TPP article rights are author owned, so go ahead with republishing, and congratulations!

-TPP Editors

]]> Comment on About by Vicky Ma http://tppblog.wordpress.com/about/#comment-62 Vicky Ma Tue, 12 May 2009 11:32:41 +0000 #comment-62 In 2005 I published a chapter of my dissertation on your journal. Now a publisher approaches me and considers publishing my dissertation in the format of a printed book. I wonder if there is any copyright issue with your journal. Please let me know. Thanks. In 2005 I published a chapter of my dissertation on your journal. Now a publisher approaches me and considers publishing my dissertation in the format of a printed book. I wonder if there is any copyright issue with your journal. Please let me know. Thanks.

]]> Comment on “Scenes of Secrecy/Scales of Hope” by Michael Ducey http://tppblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/%e2%80%9cscenes-of-secrecyscales-of-hope%e2%80%9d/#comment-53 Michael Ducey Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:46:41 +0000 http://tppblog.wordpress.com/?p=49#comment-53 What happens to trauma when you "disprivelege the body"? Well, you are stuck with talking about it. But, if you (realistically) continue to privilege the organic body, then you can heal trauma. E.g., in The Affective Turn, Clough says, "But what is more important is the way the essays render changes in processes of embodiment, that is, employ new writing/methods for grasping the materialities and temporalities of bodies." Ah, grasp by writing. That's a big help. And further, "For Lacan, the Real is unassimilable because it is non-symbolizable." Right, which is why nobody uses Lacanian therapy any more. On the other hand, organic body privilegers use direct somatic technics such as Levine's Somatic Experiencing, Gendlin's Focusing, and Hakomi to actually heal trauma imprints. Instead of saying that trauma is "the engulfment of ego in memory", they point out that trauma is the overwhelm of certain biological information processors, and observe: "It doesn’t matter what the treatment is as long as people are paying attention to the body and working with the nervous system directly to help bring back self-regulation. And the most self-regulating of all systems are the lower brain structures that govern life in the body." (Raja Selvam, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, practitioner of Somatic Experiencing.) So, dispriveleging the body is a clinical disaster. How can you heal the body if you have left the body? What happens to trauma when you “disprivelege the body”? Well, you are stuck with talking about it.

But, if you (realistically) continue to privilege the organic body, then you can heal trauma.

E.g., in The Affective Turn, Clough says, “But what is more important is the way the essays render changes in processes of embodiment, that is, employ new writing/methods for grasping the materialities and temporalities of bodies.”

Ah, grasp by writing. That’s a big help.

And further, “For Lacan, the Real is unassimilable because it is non-symbolizable.” Right, which is why nobody uses Lacanian therapy any more.

On the other hand, organic body privilegers use direct somatic technics such as Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, Gendlin’s Focusing, and Hakomi to actually heal trauma imprints.

Instead of saying that trauma is “the engulfment of ego in memory”, they point out that trauma is the overwhelm of certain biological information processors, and observe: “It doesn’t matter what the treatment is as long as people are paying attention to the body and working with the nervous system directly to help bring back self-regulation. And the most self-regulating of all systems are the lower brain structures that govern life in the body.” (Raja Selvam, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, practitioner of Somatic Experiencing.)

So, dispriveleging the body is a clinical disaster. How can you heal the body if you have left the body?

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