The concept of alienation is a multifaceted issue which has been used to describe the state of human estrangement from society, from others and even from one’s own nature. David Patterson goes further when he states that alienation becomes the norm, more than that it becomes the core of human existence. The present paper delineates bodily alienation in a host of settings, in aging, in sickness, and in death, approaching the issue from a phenomenological and philosophical point of view. At first, the phenomenon of bodily alienation depicts the physical change in the experience of aging and its effects on the protagonist. It puts into focus the alien nature of growing old, representing the body in aging as a tool and an obstacle, as it reflects upon the individual relation with others highlighting the body as a being-for others. Then, the study swirls around the changes that accompany being ill, differentiating between the lived body and body as object. As it also revives around the objectification of the body in illness through the examination stage, the loss of mastery over the body, its dysfunction and otherness. Finally, the paper depends on Sartre’s work to explore the alienated body in death, examining Stoner’s alienation during his dying hours.
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Alienation, Body, Age, Illness, Death, Object
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