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  1. This position is consonant with arguments in, for example, Hunger Strike (Orbach, 1986, pp. 70–71), an exploration of the concept of anorexia nervosa. Orbach argues that the idea of a ‘false self’, developed by Object Relations theorist, D.W. Winnicott, can be transformed into a notion of a ‘false body’. A woman diagnosed with anorexia experiences her body as a ‘bad object relation’ and this pathology produces the belief that the individual is in the ‘wrong body’.

  2. For more on theories of affect in relation to embodiment, see the collection of essays edited by Patricia Clough (2007) in The Affective Turn.

  3. Much of Winncott's work has been subject to feminist critique, for example Riley (1983), but there is no mention of this in Orbach's account.

  4. See, for example, Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers (1985); Haraway (1991, 1997); Prigogene (1997); Latour (2005).

  5. It might be worth contrasting this rather pessimistic view with the work of another theorist, Victoria Pitts (2003), who sees the post-human body from a very different perspective.

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Chambers, L. A Review of Bodies. Subjectivity 3, 219–224 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2010.4

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