Nevertheless, from how he struggled to gain control over his body, he seemed to be in a constant battle with his body as a segregated entity, dissociating with body-self relations rather than reconciling between his body and self in the process. It is unclear that whether he would consider himself as still having or being the body merely by extracting from his narrative from the book. He viewed himself not only distanced from his body, he was also estranged from such a body. Him seeing his own image as a grotesque being reflects the disjunction between his body and his self. For a moment I stared at that dilated pupil, before I realised it was only mine.(p.32) One eye was sewn shut, the other goggled like the doomed eye of Cain.
#Shut in syndrome full#
His mouth was twisted, his nose damaged, his hair tousled, his gaze full of fear. Reflected in the glass I saw the head of a man who seemed to have emerged from a vat of formaldehyde.
When Bauby first saw himself after the incident: Living with Locked-in Syndrome, he despised his deadened body as a ‘hellish trap’ (p.19), and furthermore considered it to be ‘alien to the acting self’ (Good 1994:124).
The previous relationship between body and self is now seriously interrupted by the new affliction (Nettleson 1995:102). (p.16)īauby’s body, previously quiet and unremarkable, now cried out in pain and agony for his undivided attention. … It was a nightmare to put them on… Watch… over these uncooperative deadweight limbs that serve me only as a source of pain.
And in another occasion, when he was dressing:
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