[Adta] Body Memory

[Ilene Serlin]

Hi Sabine,

My dissertation was called "Kinaesthetic Imagining", and I gathered  
phenomenological descriptions from students moving. I first worked  
with the idea of movement as a text with multiple meanings, and found  
Paul Ricoeur very helpful here (he has also written about meaning- 
making as an action, which  called action hermeneutics.) I found 3  
levels of meaning in the movement text that correspond to his three  
levels: the metaphoric, the archeological, and the teleological. That  
dissertation is available from University dissertations in Ann Arbor  
if you are interested, and there are some very good references in it  
as well.

Best wishes,

Ilene


On Oct 23, 2007, at 5:35 AM, Sabine Koch wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to use this discussion to let you know that we are  
> planning to do some research on "body memory" at the University of  
> Heidelberg, Germany (Sabine Koch & Thomas Fuchs).
> We would start from the phenomenological and definitional side of  
> the problem. My specific focus will be on how movement can evoke  
> episodes of autobiographical memory, and whether certain movement  
> qualities are suited to evoke specific memories (in order to inform  
> our work with movement interventions). There is very little written  
> about the topic. For the more implicit aspects of body memory I  
> would like to recommend Maxine Sheets-Johnston's "Kinesthetic  
> Memory" Article  (2003) as well as Thomas Fuchs "Body  
> Memory" (2004) Article, also Edward Casey has treated the topic.   
> If you have any other references or ideas on the topic, I would be  
> grateful if you could get in touch with me.
>
> With best regards,
> Sabine Koch
>
> P.S.: I am very happy and grateful for the 2007 Research Award on  
> "The Joy Dance" Article.
> This is my first award and it sure feels good!
>
> Heather Hill wrote:
> "Hi Sabine!
> Just a note to say that I thought this looked really interesting  
> too - but like you, I'm much too far away.  I think I'd like to  
> read more of Sheets-Johnstone's work. I've used her article  
> Thinking in Movement for our students in the past.
> Have you read Daniel Stern's book The Present Moment in  
> Psychotherapy and Everyday life?  This is a major influence in the  
> work at Miecat, where I now work (and which I'm loving by the way!)."
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