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Title: El baile y el movimiento del cuerpo «degenerado» de finales del s. XIX y principios del XX
Author: Jiménez Alonso, Belén
Citation: Jiménez, B. [Belén]. (2006). El reino de este mundo: responsabilidad moral y subjetividad en la neo-escolástica española. Revista de Historia de la Psicología, 27 (2/3) 63-70
Abstract: In this paper we undertake an analysis of the psychological discourses employed between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th to interpret the «degenerate dance» (the dance of criminals, insanes and even women and lower classes). The psychological perspective of some scholars interested in the criminal anthropology like Cesare Lombroso, Thèodule Ribot or Rafael Salillas will be studied. Specifi cally, our main concern is their point of view about the deviation of: 1) the aesthetics in general (its origin and evolution); and 2) the dance in particular (its ontogenetic and fi logenetic development). As well all know, the theories of degeneration would maintain a somatic conception thanks to which the corporal anomalies (the known «stigmatas») would suppose the objectification of degeneration. This conception, which implied the reproduction of the classic greco-Latin and judeo-Christian canon on the beauty and balance ideal in the scientific field, would be also the one that would allow to refer to the corporal movements, positions and gestures of those individuals like another manifestation of its otherness, that is to say, of the dances like expressions of its degenerated subjectivity; a subjectivity that was characterized by emotional exaggeration. In this period, due to the consolidation of the studies on the psycho-physiological and unconscious processes, the «feeling» would become the most authentic manifestation of the human being. This fact is linked to the appearance of a new form to understand ourselves like «psychological» beings and, as Nikolas Rose points out, to narrate us in terms of an «inner life» that hides the secrets of our identity, which must be discovered and analysed.
Keywords: movement
psychology
degeneration
emotion
Spain
dance
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: Sep-2006
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/es/  
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