Lived Body in Pain: Interaffective Space for Mother-Child Relations in Art Practices

Irina Poleshchuk

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Lived Body in Pain: Interaffective Space for Mother-Child Relations in Art Practices

Irina Poleshchuk

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In this paper, I explore pain embodiment expressed in visceral body and manifesting as lived body. Adhering to research by Aristarkhova, Damasio, Fuchs, Leder, Mol, and Svenaeus I explain the phenomenology of embodiment of suffering and pain, and how it affects the maternal subject, who initially has been thought of as hospitably welcoming the child. Moving from phenomenological account of pain affect towards pain mechanisms explained in neurobiology, my main interest lies in exploring how pain expresses deferent levels of sensations and emotions, including the rise of traumatic reactions. In analyzing existential structures of suffering and pain, I tackle such concepts as visceral body, absent body, body present in pain, and extended body which, I believe, can be rendered visible and well interpreted in art practices. I analyse how in art practices maternal subjectivity, experiencing chronic pain, can move from being locked in the pain event to a transcending lived body, and finally can establish a new sensibility, i.e. extended embodiment in pain which empowers the new social environment with the child. As well as a new sensibility, this new dimension introduces interaffective space grasped as an extended body and visualized in art practices of clay and collaging. The research adheres a phenomenological method. I address examples of visual narratives of pain done during several workshops in 2021 by 8 mothers with 9 children.

DOI	10.11648/j.hss.20221004.15
Published in	Humanities and Social Sciences (Volume 10, Issue 4, July 2022)
Page(s)	230-236
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Pain Affect, Lived Body in Pain, Maternal Body, Hospitality, Affectivity

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Irina Poleshchuk

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla, Finland; Department of Social Sciences, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania

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