Philosophical meetings of Monaco 6/6.- Exclusively for Madame Figaroand in collaboration with PhiloMonaco Week, which ends on June 16, six philosophers subtly shed light on the essence of being. Today, with Marie-Aude Baronyan*, we explore our relationship with our nakedness.
We are not all equal or even all “at home” when it comes to nudity. Will a clothed body be stronger and fitter for any challenge? Or should we rather imagine the clothed body as inevitably masked, disguised, and presented to appear outwardly? The bare bones experience is not as simple as it sounds. Because even in the naked, private and domestic space, away from sight and radar, we can feel autopsied, spied on by ourselves, by our own fears, our expectations, projections and imaginations. When we are completely naked, we are with ourselves, finally free, or the opposite – stripped, disarmed.
And is this feeling of a certain anxiety which tends to ambush us connected with the instructions of an athletic, vigorous body, Perfect or, more simply, of physiological or even moral discomfort. Beyond anatomical considerations, outline markers, or other bodily markers, nudity is not de facto a garment of liberation and emancipation. Moreover, is the naked body really naked, because nakedness itself is often clothed and clothed, in the sense that it is covered with all kinds of codes, numbers and beliefs?
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Between physical and emotional observation, being completely naked hurts our vulnerability. If it is true that accepting one’s own vulnerability is an ongoing quest in these times of frantic fulfillment, is it anatomical? Shouldn’t we recognize the diversity of what nudity means and implies for each of us? Most of us feel (very) naked and (too) naked when we get dressed. Thus, the distinction between clothed and unclothed is not so clear-cut and intersected by many experiences. That’s why we can ask ourselves whether we should stick, without distraction, to the idea that to be completely naked is to be undeniably free and to be “good with the body.
The naked body, cut off from all material equipment, is not the most complementary or reassuring form for everyone. We ask ourselves again. Is the feeling of discomfort associated with the patterns of a powerful and intact body, or rather, the discomfort of an unprotected body? In short, perhaps the intimacy of the naked body in the intimate and discreet space of the home is not only a matter of morphological order, but perhaps it is rather defined by the standard of humility of our gaze and words. about ourselves and others.
Marie-Aude Baronyan is a doctor of philosophy and cinematography, an associate professor of the faculties of humanities at the University of Amsterdam.
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PhiloMonaco Week is organized from Tuesday June 11 to Sunday June 16 by Rencontres Philosophiques de Monaco, chaired by co-founder Charlotte Casiraghi. Free and open to all. In the program: ecology, education, care, woman, art of living and the pleasure of philosophizing.
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Source: Le Figaro
