8/13/2019 On Touch
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We are overwhelmed by pictures. They are everywhere, they
construct our "picture of the world"
picture of you, picture of ourselves. We are thinking in
pictures. Our dominant sense is sight.
Our gaze is pushed out our sense for touch. But it is only one
sense which does not divide our
relation with the other subject into active and passive,
dominant or inferior, and on the end
subject or object. Every time when I touch someone I am at the
same time subject and object of
that touch, I touch and I am touched. I can not be hidden while
I am touching. Oxford dictionary
defined the term touch as : "come or bring into mutual
contact".The promise of the sense of
touch is community. For Aristotle the sense of touch is the main
sense for our existence For
since the living animal (zooion) is a body possessing soul, and
every body is tangible, and
tangible means perceptible by touch, it follows that the body of
the animal must have the faculty
of touch if the animal is to survive The organ which receptive
for the touch is skin. At the same
time it is also the border, the place where we are bounded with
the world. It is the biggest organ
of our body. Wisdom is inspired by touch. To be open for the
touch of the other always mean
endlessly open subject and sense for the hospitality. To be open
for the guest is the measure of
our subjectivity. Our guests could be guests by coincidence:
when your hand touched my hand
in the public transport while you are leaving your seat that had
been next to mine. Response is
always present in the touch. There is a specific phobia called
haphephobia: the fear of touching
or of being touched. It seems that this phobia became a paradigm
of our society - a need to
protect our own space is developed it into a pathology. On the
other hand pornography is present
everywhere, in every corner, in every institution. Pornography:
a need to transform subject into
an object - long process of desubjectivation relayed on the
certain dominated structures. In my
film there will be a scene where the main character is trying to
pet the subject that he loves but
he will not be able to touch her. Here I will try to show that
impossibility of inbreak on the
territory of the other and otherwise I believe that is also the
way to represent longing to touch
and being touched. To discover your own body in the moment of
touching. In that scene he will
pet her just over her body while she is sleeping but it will be
also his dream what he will discover
when he wakes up. Here we have double dream. When the subject is
sleeping while he or she is
touched than he or she is not aware of this action but still
could express the pleasure, it is not rare
happening when a mother is petting her child. Somehow our skin
as border is able to recognize
touch or pressure. Where is touch there is temptation to hurt or
to be hurt. Touch is the concrete
