The romantic or idealistic love between a teenage boy and girl (frequently still to be found even in our modern sensualised world) may also be accompanied by a desire to show bodily affection - a desire filled with a tenderness and respect that operate as a curb, not only on lust if it seeks to assert itself, but also on
bodily expressions of love which would not be true to the real existential relationship between the couple.
Carnal concupiscence is not the only expression of self - love; but, since it so pervasively affects the most significant
bodily expression of conjugal love, its tendency to dominate must be specially resisted; otherwise love may not survive this battle.
Methodology for assessing
bodily expression of emotion.
Not exact matches
We are subjects
of desire and consent, who use
bodily equipment for spiritual and emotional
expression.
Preaching is frequently done to an invisible congregation because the lights have been turned down; yet the facial
expressions and
bodily postures and movements
of the congregation are communications in response to the preacher, and he needs to see and note them as at least partial guidance for his speaking.
Alfred North Whitehead brilliantly defines the human body as the primary field
of human
expression.14 So every
bodily action becomes symbolically the incarnation
of a human attitude in the whole gamut from ecstatic fulfilment to boredom and despair.
Rather, they are dispositions for public actions — perhaps contemplative practices, perhaps discursive reasoning employing a publicly shared language, perhaps physical
expressions of emotions employing culturally conventional facial
expressions or
bodily movement, perhaps intentional
bodily action (as we have noted, just which
of these public actions has not been specified).
Even though Whitehead says «the novelty received from the aggregate diversities
of bodily expressions... requires decision» to reduce it to a coherent
expression (Modes 36), still the diversities once received are determinate object / parts logically required to remain as they are in order to retain the self - identity
of the process / whole.
Experience itself, therefore, is only truly consummated in the passion
of generation where the spontaneous
expression of bodily energy duplicates and even makes incarnate in each individual body the universal process
of the kenosis or emptying
of the Godhead.
Whether I use the
expression «momentary self» or the word «monad,» what I am in fact doing is setting a limit, on no validly argued grounds, to the dissolution
of the «total temporary states» into a purely ad hoc combination
of inexplicable and inexplicably organized collections
of bodily cells, sensations, intentions, thoughts, nervous processes, desires, and the like.
Faith presupposes a context
of certain practices and even
bodily transformation» for our flesh is redeemed by Christ's own flesh» and can not be considered a general feature
of human nature that finds diverse
expression in all the great religious traditions.
As a Catholic who strongly supports Pope Francis and views Rush Limbaugh beyond the limits
of decency, I find any
expressions of hate and desire for
bodily harm or death even more repulsive than Rush's most vile comments.
Jesus suffering becomes the very word and speech
of love finding
bodily, historical
expression and creating a new possibility
of communion.
It is as if God creates man when the
bodily system has become so malleable in its operation as to be capable
of the
expression of thought and understanding.
The
expression of love involves a concern for their
bodily and mental welfare as well as their spiritual wellbeing.
Without any
expression of bodily or emotional pair - bonding love, this guy is merely a caricature created by authors» for their purposes.
It is, or should be, the full
expression of the worker's faculties, the thing in which he finds spiritual, mental, and
bodily satisfaction, and the medium in which he offers himself to God.»
Instead
of our seeing
expression as an external sign
of subjective states or intentions, it becomes the natural
bodily form that my activities take.
9 There are striking parallels between Merleau - Ponty's account
of expression and Whitehead's in MT. See especially MT32, where Whitehead discusses the relationship
of feeling to
expression, considering both
of them in terms
of the natural functioning
of the
bodily system.
Obama's elevation
of bodily suffering above all other considerations, as he articulates it in his remarks to the press following his new executive order on stem cell research, is clearly an
expression of this Cartesian legacy,
of a modern science pregnant with moral attachments.
Man, created in God's image, has spiritual existence, not as something added to his
bodily substance, but as the
expression of that concrete body - mind unity which he is as a person.
During his time at the Pride Agenda he has been actively involved with the passage
of dozens
of laws, ordinances, regulations and Executive Orders on the state and local level affecting New York's LGBT community, including statewide measures like: the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act; the Hate Crimes Act
of 2000; making the state's 9/11 relief inclusive
of same - sex couples; guaranteeing domestic partners hospital visitation, legal authority over a loved one's
bodily remains, access to Family Court and medical decision making authority; prohibiting discrimination on the basis
of gender identity and
expression in state employment; and securing over $ 50 million
of funding for LGBT health and human services.
If we can give these individuals, incarnated with the propensity to use their minds as instruments
of expression, growth, and evolution, the tools to balance their
bodily organism, it is my belief that they will come into fuller contact with their soul, their reason for being, and their essential role in ushering us into the next story.
«An object
of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion» or «an object or
bodily part whose real or fantasized presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification and that is an object
of fixation to the extent that it may interfere with complete sexual
expression» is how Merriam - Webster defines the word fetish.
In Love, the love must be expressive and the
expression could be by way
of bodily action and or communication.
Ferociously determined to do right by her children, (in particular, Claudia), in order for them to have a better life, her facial
expressions and small,
bodily tics belie a host
of lost dreams and future hopes.
Ostensibly depicting scenes from everyday life — a windswept walk along beach, the artist's daughter, dancing, sewing or putting on a shoe — the works in this exhibition alert us to the endless nuance
of bodily expression and the myriad ways in which we reveal ourselves and communicate emotion, such as happiness, sadness, confidence, doubt or even distraction, consciously or not.
The performative nature
of the paintings and the artist's self - awareness on camera recalls Hans Namuth's infamous photographs
of Jackson Pollock's dramatic painting process — images that have defined our understanding
of his active
bodily presence.18 However, in Saint Phalle's hands, there is an explicit refusal
of the terms
of abstraction that Pollock and others
of his generation perfected — i.e., the
expression of exquisite anguish that could be exorcized by subjective brushwork from the singular, heroic male artist.
Her exhibition Nowhere Else, 2017 explored the transient quality
of language interpreted through sculptural, textual and
bodily expressions.
Strips
of black felt resemble the Celotex bumps and microchip or prison imagery
of Peter Halley, but with a
bodily sensation remote from Halley's refusal
of expression.
Thus each painting, large in scale and inevitable tactile, offers
expressions beyond the formality
of language and seeks to inspire a
bodily resonance concerning the meaning to inhabit a material world.
For Shiraga, painting with his feet enabled an unmediated encounter with the material and a direct
bodily form
of artistic
expression, seen in such paintings as Untitled (1957) and Wild Boar Hunting II (1963) and in his performance Challenging Mud (1955), where the artist «painted» with his entire body in a pile
of grit, directly engaging with raw matter.
She examines the cultural and natural encodings
of human (
bodily)
expression and behaviour, and through her works, she encourages reflection on the way people act and interact in given surroundings.
At the São Paulo gallery's European outpost, this weekend sees the first solo exhibition in Brussels by Luiz Roque, «The Modern Years», a series
of three films emerging from the artist's interest in sculpture and
bodily expression: Modern (2014) draws on research into Henry Moore's Recumbent Figure (1938) and performance artist Leigh Bowery (a fixture
of London's»80s club culture) while in Rio De Janeiro (2017), a black transsexual woman holds a phone conversation with the founder
of the city's Museum
of Modern Art, in which she discusses a dream
of the building burning.
Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist finds a dialogue between the scale
of gesture and visceral
expression found in Jean Dubuffet's (1901 - 1985) The Tree
of Fluids 1950 or Willem de Kooning's (1904 - 1997) The Visit 1966 - 7 and the surreal figuration in Francis Bacon's (1909 - 1992) Study for a Portrait
of Van Gogh IV 1957, Hans Bellmer's (1902 - 1975) The Doll 1936 and Graham Sutherland's (1903 - 1980) Standing Forms II 1952 with the «corrupted»
bodily gesture
of Butoh.
The artist came to believe that what was essential in art — given the diversity
of themes or motifs — were two universal requirements: that every work
of art has an individual order or coherence, a quality
of unity and necessity in its structure regardless
of the kind
of forms used; and, second, that the forms and colors chosen have a decided expressive physiognomy, that they speak to us as a feeling - charged whole, through the intrinsic power
of colors and lines, rather than through the imaging
of facial
expressions, gestures and
bodily movements, although these are not necessarily excluded — for they are also forms.
Preparing and teaching craft creating and products and demonstrating their use, delivering possibilities for innovative
expression by way
of the media
of artwork, dramatic play, music and
bodily fitness
The essential and basics
of human structure (anatomy) and human
bodily processes (physiology), general illnesses and sicknesses, health disorders and medical terms (or
expressions)
of the human digestive system.
It refers to the
expression of a child's feelings about herself, others, and the situations she will face in the world around her as well as gaining control
of her
bodily functions, learning to focus, and pay attention in the context
of nurturing support by familiar caregivers (Mackrain, Golani & Kairone, 2008).