Linguistically, they are but words and letters away from each other: in other words, not very far at all. In other structuralist words, you can never have, for example, cleanliness without dirt. For poststructuralists, it is essential to recognise this constitution of difference in language; for cyborgologists however, dirt and cleanliness as categories have to be refigured alongside dirt and cleanliness as prosthetic entities, attachments, as material interferences with the order of discourse.
To put it another way, cyborgology asks difficult questions about the status of things and bodies in a way that poststructuralism often sidesteps. But it also takes seriously the extending and extensive effects of new technologies in grasping how bodies work. As such much of the useful literature on embodiment emerges out of this cyborg consciousness Stone, ; Hables-Gray, Our interest however is to examine how such approaches might be used in empirical research.
The contention here is that the cyborg is a new formulation necessitated by rapidly changing technology, but that the principles of such thinking are found in earlier philosophical and psychological ideas. It is the ordinary technologies — ie. It is our contention then, not that there is something new cyborg-ish about houses and objects on the contrary they are very, very old social forms but that cyborgology old and new offers useful insights in understanding victimisation.
In different but related ways this is found in a tradition connecting Freud, Winnicott, Heidegger, Douglas and others. Perhaps the central body of work that can be used to unlock the experience of burglary emerges from the interface of philosophy and psychoanalysis and which deals with the uncanny.
The uncanny is that which is unknown but in the German, unheimlich means unhomely. This interesting distinction has been extensively discussed as a figure for symbolic activity in general: if home is that which is familiar and close homely , beyond the home exists that which is defined as unknown, dangerous.
In phenomenological fashion, the house is the product of everyday, ordinary yet vitally important distinctions and praxes that provide the possibility for symbolic existence. It is also crucial to note that the unheimlich is so important as adjunct to the heimlich because they are inseparable. The key point here is that the familiar is always threatening to break out of its boundaries, to leak, to be intruded upon. This invasion of the known by the unknown causes deep uncertainty: it is uncertainty itself.
It is best demonstrated by the most obvious uncanninesses of bodily experience and the ways in which bodily experience is integrated into the social and the symbolic. The internal organs and functions of our bodies are the most proximate experiences we have yet they are some of our most horrific. Digestions and indigestions, leakages, piercings and penetrations: such stuff is the immediate unknown that configures our sense of comfort and discomfort, known and unknown, taste and disgust.
This leakiness of the body is a way of understanding our embeddedness within the home: drawing into ourselves a material collection of known things, we try to forget that these things are things and not-us.
A body in ill repair, suffering indisposition — constant tinkering and doctoring to keep it alive. It is a marvel we, its infesters, do not go insane in it and with it. Perhaps it is a form of insanity we have to put in it. For psychoanalysts the negotiation of symbolic space provides one such fictional, temporary and moveable resolution.
In order to effect the separation between the primary narcissistic self the stage of almost complete absorption and the autonomous self, babies undergo shifts in their subjective experience. The transitional object Phillips, is any object adopted by the infant that comes to represent security in the absence of a parent - it does this by combining the qualities of a thing both loved and hated, both present and absent, both permanent and transitory, and both independent of the child's will and controlled by her.
This multiple nature is created by the emergent separation of child from parent but at the same time serves to effect or at least aid that separation. The transitional object is then, for Winnicott, a representation of although not a substitute for the space between people. The security a child feels through the presence of a primary carer must be diminished in their absence.
In the loss of that certainty, children play with, feel affection for and attack objects in order that they might learn otherness. But the dual status of the transitional object highlights beautifully the requirements for negotiation of this uncanny divide. A slightly older child runs away from home, but at the bottom of the garden has finished running away.
The garden fence is now symbolical of the narrower aspect of holding which has just been broken up, shall we say the house. Later, the child works out all these things in going to school and in relation to the other groups that are outside the home. In each case these outside groups represent a getting away from the home and yet at the same time they are symbolical of the home that has been broken away from and in fantasy broken up.
Moreover, it is argued that there is some continuity between childhood experience and adult perceptions of objects and spaces. This idea has strong reminders of, and parallels to, some very central questions in philosophy and the social sciences. In particular, what such psychoanalytic models do is provide an explanatory framework for some of the experiential dramas at the heart of wider and more literal boundary disputes. The phenomenology of spaces found in the work of Bachelard or Vidler highlights the social and symbolic centrality to people of actual houses in their lived, material constitution.
Our argument here is that as well as being logically possible to see the psychoanalysis and phenomenology of people in spaces as compatible, it is also necessary for an understanding of the intricate details of the value of home-as-lived.
Structuralist anthropology in particular has identified the centrality of the boundary as the key defining feature of social ordering. As in the work of Winnicott, the boundary in Douglas or Levi-Strauss represents a series of concentric circles which cultural insiders butt up against and outsiders invade.
In such analyses, the idea of home, as in Freud, is that which is close, familiar. The boundary, however, cannot simply be taken as a given, as poststructuralism has shown us: it needs to be understood as constructed, policed and unfinished. Boundaries imply separation and structuralist anthropology can often reify this separation. Instead the processual nature of the boundary needs to be clarified. As in Winnicott this processual boundary making can be recognised as a disturbance. To overcome this disturbance, humans develop strategies for coping: fictions, politenesses and tacit knowledges that confirm the apparent clarity and fixity of boundaries.
When such politenesses are made explicit as ethnomethodology shows us convincingly a deep discomfort can be invoked. Of crucial significance in this experience is the meaning and experience of boundary transgression.
It is not, however, simply a structuralist case of the outside invading the inside; rather, we suggest that burglary serves to highlight the problematic accord that people make with boundaries in order to live comfortably. Because the precise task of the familiar is to be forgotten, to blend in with the background.
At the same time, however, objects and things are always just there in their brute existence. Possessions and belongings seem to have this dual status, like the Gestalt images which can be two things, but are never really perceived as both simultaneously.
It is this paradox that it is at the heart of much recent discussion of consumption. We must ask though, how it is that such transformations are actually effected within everyday lives, how such a forgetting such that life can be lived unencumbered by a surfeit of horror at alien objects can take place? This idea of a disruption of the apparent imagined subjective life of the child and the real objective world of others is addressed explicitly by Merleau-Ponty in his concern to elucidate the bodily praxis of knowing.
The carnal possibilities of the body form a pre-subjective bodily knowledge that allow for categorisations eg. These ideas are centred on a relationship between people and objects that is inseparable: knowledge-of 17objects is always knowledge-by a body. What this bodily knowing implies to us is an appreciation of the experience of home and the things in it that is often unmediated: the body learns its particular praxes within objective spaces and in so doing constitutes those spaces.
Because of the lack of Cartesian separation between bodies and environments, there is a kind of physical remembering written on the body, and a forgetting of the difference between 'me' and 'not-me' that operates simultaneously to engender a sense of comfort. Burglary revisited: Invasion of the Body Snatchers? The conclusions that we draw from putting together these two very different bodies of work — victimology and the theoretical issues of homeliness — focus on what happens when burglary occurs.
We suggest that the ideas above offer a way of understanding the particular transgressions that are so disturbing. Moreover, the significance of the invasion is problematised by the embodied nature of the relationship to home and things: by their very nature, familiar objects are conceived of and lived as extensions of the body. The necessity of familiarity in homeliness creates this praxis of proximity: things that are so close to the body, that are in the body, that they feel amputated by burglary.
The loss of objects, crucially, is much more than the loss of part of a cognitive, discursive identity. As discussed above, sentimental value needs to be understood as more than just the sense of the meaning of objects in relation to the biographical narratives people tell about themselves. Objects are valuable because they are rich with sensory and memory laden experience, as well as representing identity. In this way, we need to understand the hierarchies of value-as-lived of particular objects.
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