Notes over Scarry essay

Dominic Spears

Dr. Brown

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Scarry
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torture is a process which not only converts but nounces the conversion of every conceivable aspect of the event and the environment

• in Chile built on these repeated acts of display and having as its purpose the production of a fantastic illusion of power, torture i a grotesque piece of compensatory drama

• pain is traditionally followed by the question

• torture consists of a primary physical act

• questions content are announced as though they motivated he cruelty

• pain and interrogation occur together

• people want confessions

• betrayal occurs in confession, one betrays oneself and all those aspects of the word

• disintegrating perception brought about by great apina and objectified in confession

• no particular form of torture is required to make visible the kinship bewtween pain and death both which are radical and absolute

• pain and death are the most intense forms of negation the purest expressions of the anti-human of annihilation

• the body is its pains a shrill sentience that hurts and is hugely alarmed by its hurt

• the body is it scars thick and forgetful unmindful of its hurt, unmindful of anything, mute and insensate

• the body works to obliterate the world and self of the old person

• as body breaks down it becomes increasingly the object of attention usurping the place of all other objects so that finally in very very old and sick people the workd may exist only in a circle 2 feet out from themselves

• the struggle to stay alive

• so serious in pain the claims of the body utterly nullify the claims of the world

• physical pain is able to obliterate psychological painbecause it obliterates all psychological content

• duration of pain

• control: the person tortured does not will his entry into & withdrawal out of the pain as the religious communicant enters & leaves the pain of the healing therapy

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purpose: