Parasomatic is a word I came up with. It is a mode of embodiment which moves the subject beyond the immediacy of the physical, redefining the self as both its living body and its energetic exchanges. Applied to the reflexive self, parasomatism is an abnormalization, reference, expansion, and dissolution of the body as a fixed interiority. It is the body as a fluctuating current. Navigating this concept requires receptivity to flows of energies and ideas that fill, displace, and cause bodies to overflow. This work does not employ fantasies of an altered physical presence in the immediate sense, but reveals physical presence to be tenuous, nervous, and circumstantial. More on this idea can be found in my written thesis.
