From 042ddec7d48e32edeef371ac6397ce12d21c339c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simoon Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:54:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] added text --- notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md diff --git a/notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md b/notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4f0673 --- /dev/null +++ b/notes/resonant_bodies_voices_memories.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Notes from *Resonant Bodies, Voices, Memories* +============================================== + +Bangma, A., Piet Zwart Instituut (Eds.), 2009. Resonant bodies, voices, +memories. Revolver Publ, Berlin. + +'Phonophobia: The dumb devil of stammering' by Steven Connor, pages 132-144 +--------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The voice is a dream voice - "when we speak of the materiality of the +voice, we evoke imaginary substance and mythical powers" (pg 133) + +"there is no disembodied voice" (pg 133), a voice always has "somebody, +something of somebody's body, in it" (pg 133) + +"The voice is the body's second life---something between a substance and +a force---a fluency that is yet a form." (pg 133) + +### Stammering has been regarded through history as the result of a material or physical impediment, not a spiritual one + +- Hippocratic school of Kos: stammering was the result of excessive + dryness of the tongue +- Galen (principal authority for humoral theory in the medieval + period): stammering comes from excessive moisture of the brain, or + tongue, or both +- around the same time (16th century), "engorgement of the tongue + through alchoholic vapors" (pg 134) was blamed for stammering +- Francis Bacon blamed coldness for stammering +- Alexander Ross refuted Bacon's claim, proposing that the stutterer's + speech was overheated, not congealed + +Although humoral theory was replaced by mechanical theories of the +body's functioning, old ideas persisted + +In 1879, William Abbotts' *Impediments of Speech* blamed stammering on +the weather (wet, cold weather rather than dry bracing weather being the +culprit) and breathing through the mouth rather than the nose + +Freud's development of psychoanalytic theory encouraged a turn to +psychogenic theories of the functioning of the stammer + +It was seen as "a physical disturbance that enacts contrary +impulses---the impulse to speak, and the impulse to withhold speech" + +Other psychoanalytic theories represented stammering with "anxious +ambivalence" + +- Fenichel: stammering "an anal-sadistic impulse to utter obscenities" + (pg 135) +- I. H. Coriat: stammering was the unsuccessful result to "manage oral + anxietiees related to nursing" (pg 135) +- Peter Glauber: the struggle in the mind and body of the stammer is + between a huge investment in "the magical omnipotence of words" and + the need to repress a desire for verbal power + +Altogether, these are representations of castration anxiety + +Although psychoanalysis comes closer to analysing the fantasies of the +magical omnipotence of the voice (and its fearful failure), by its +nature it is also part of the "delusional apparatus", being "part of the +cultural framework that forms and deforms the voice" (pg 135) + +[Charles Kingsley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley): +stammering is the result of selfishness (allowing too much self into the +voice)