{"id":12,"date":"2004-02-09T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/2004\/02\/12.html"},"modified":"2004-02-09T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T19:27:00","slug":"whole-by-melody-gilbert-httpwww","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/2004\/02\/whole-by-melody-gilbert-httpwww.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whole<br \/>\n<br \/>by Melody Gilbert<br \/>\n<br \/>http:\/\/www.whole-documentary.com\/main.html<\/p>\n<p>The subjects remove part of a limb, mostly a leg, and mostly the left leg. They then feel more complete, more whole. <\/p>\n<p>This documentary was fascinating for its subject matter. These people belong to a type of disorder not yet listed or recognized, and yet there may be thousands world-wide who suffer from it. For those among the audience interested in body manipulations, voluntary amputation really gets you thinking. Is the point to remove a foreign body? To get rid of something so that it can&#8217;t be seen any longer? To take care of a mental preoccupation and obsession (could these people be sublimating or displacing a deeper desire for gender change? It didn&#8217;t seem so). Is it for some the fascination with a prosthesis, the artificial attachment being the obsession, a physical extension more desirable than a real leg? Is there a left\/right brain connection that causes most of these people to prefer the left over the right? And why is their obsession so particular: this leg only, and up to here only&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll come away with sympathy for these people. There&#8217;s nothing abnormal about them at all. They desire to get rid of something in the way that you desire to get rid of a few pounds. Only that somewhere inside, that something which is their own has become an object, an &#8220;it,&#8221; a foreign body. As if the leg to be removed were already an artificial leg. J.G. Ballard, are you listening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole by Melody Gilbert http:\/\/www.whole-documentary.com\/main.html The subjects remove part of a limb, mostly a leg,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}