BUILDING ALTERITIES BODIES IN HANDICAP SITUATION

Abstract

THE BODY, little debated from the different epistemes, takes a place of configuration with the different technical-political devices of attention to the people in handicap situation, approaching a conception of the hegemonic medical paradigm. This body, those invidivual body, wich one of the déficit, of the handicap, interrupt in others bodies in the interaction with the body in relation with social body. The existence of this natural and biological fact, inexorably occurs but at the same time requires signification to become a body, to transcend the organic. Biological marks are socially instituted by practices and discourses that signify them, and at the same time there are social representations to support those marks. The social marks that institute the moments of life and the attributed meanings, define a subject. This article explores certain reflections about the conceptions of Body, since differents authors perspectives, which at the same time are linked in the attempt to build the borders between the body of nature-culture, the body of normal-anormal, the body of organic-social, b del cuerpo normal-anormal, del cuerpo orgánico-social, in sense paradoxes about bodily alterities built on disability.