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- Title
VON HAGENS ET LA FABRIQUE DU CORPS (MORT).
- Authors
MASSON, CÉLINE
- Abstract
Continuing an earlier study, "Les images modifies du corps," Revue canadienne de psychanalyse (2014), this article explores the anatomist Von Hagens's industrial method of plastinating corpses for museum display. It is based on interviews of employees working at the Institute for Plastination in Heidelberg and the analysis of documents supplied by the institute. The review of this material concludes that, behind its scientific facade, the plastination apparatus is perverse. The museum staging of these body images creates a stunning and fascinating spectacle. Appealing to a public in search of shocking sensations, the plastination apparatus might be described as perversive (by analogy with subversive).
- Subjects
PLASTINATION; VON Hagens, Gunther, 1945-; MUSEUM exhibits; BODY image; PSYCHOANALYSIS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyse, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 2, p324
- ISSN
1195-3330
- Publication type
Article