The body in Martin Amis’s Experience (2000)

Neil Vickers

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The body in Martin Amis’s Experience (2000)

Neil Vickers^*

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This paper focuses on the presentation of the body in Martin Amis’s memoir Experience (2000) and compares Amis’s account of the growth of his mind and body with ideas put forward by writers in the phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions. Using the ideas of body schema, projective identification and idea of safety, it advances a new conceptual framework for the thinking about the contribution that the body makes to selfhood in autobiography.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1459-1480
Journal	TEXTUAL PRACTICE
Volume	31
Issue number	7
Early online date	24 Nov 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2016.1237986
Publication status	Published - Dec 2017

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Martin Amis
mind-body
phenomenology
psychoanalysis
psychosomatics

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