| dc.contributor.author | Frelick, Nancy M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-02-24T10:02:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-02-24T10:02:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026-01-29 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1505-9065 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11089/57521 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In the introduction to their collective volume, The Body in Parts, David Hillman and Carla Mazzio use a psychoanalytic approach to examine the image of a supposed Medusa placed (overlayed) on top of an anatomical engraving of the female sex in the “Visio prima” of Johann Remmelin’s Catoptrum microcosmicum. These critics are not only interested in studying what they call the “age of synecdoche” or the “body in bits and pieces”; they also wish to examine the powers projected onto women’s sexual organs, along with the anxieties they produce, in Remmelin’s famous multi-layered flap-anatomy book. However, as we shall see, reading this enigmatic image proves far from simple or unequivocal, not only because it is part of a complex network of signs, but also because of the wide-ranging approaches to and divergent interpretations of this hybrid, mobile work. This article examines various readings of the monstrous figure that serves both to cover and to uncover what lies beneath the paper tab on which it is featured, namely the genitals of the truncated body of the pregnant woman at the bottom of the first page of the anatomical triptych. Through our exploration of the work of various scholars who have studied the image and its accompanying inscriptions, as well as the book’s context, we shall see that the picture in question does not necessarily represent a Gorgon, and that, despite the significant contributions of specialists from different disciplines, this mysterious figure still seems far from revealing all of its secrets. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Dans leur introduction au volume collectif, The Body in Parts, David Hillman et Carla Mazzio se servent de prismes provenant de la psychanalyse pour examiner l’image d’une soi-disant Méduse placée (plaquée) sur une gravure anatomique du sexe féminin dans la « Visio prima » du Catoptrum microcosmicum de Johann Remmelin. Il s’agit, pour ces critiques, non seulement d’étudier ce qu’ils nomment « l’âge de la synecdoque » ou du « corps morcelé », mais les rapports entre pouvoirs et angoisses projetés sur le sexe féminin dans ce fameux livre à rabats. Cependant, comme nous le verrons, la lecture de la gravure en question est loin d’être simple, ni univoque, non seulement parce qu’elle fait partie d’une œuvre complexe, mais parce qu’il y a tant de voies d’approches possibles et d’interprétations divergentes de cette œuvre hybride et mouvante. Notre article se penchera donc sur diverses lectures de la figure monstrueuse qui sert à la fois à voiler et à dévoiler ce qui se trouve sous le volet énigmatique qui la représente, à savoir les organes génitaux du corps tronqué de la femme gravide en bas de la première page du triptyque anatomique. Nous verrons que divers critiques interprètent la vignette différemment, qu’il ne s’agit pas nécessairement d’une Gorgone, et que cette image gardera, malgré tout, sa part de mystère. | fr |
| dc.language.iso | fr | |
| dc.publisher | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego | pl |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Romanica;21 | fr |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | |
| dc.subject | Johann Remmelin | en |
| dc.subject | Catoptrum microcosmicum (mirror of the microcosm) | en |
| dc.subject | flap anatomy books | en |
| dc.subject | iconography | en |
| dc.subject | mythology | en |
| dc.subject | psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan) | en |
| dc.subject | Johann Remmelin | fr |
| dc.subject | Catoptrum microcosmicum (miroir du microcosme) | fr |
| dc.subject | feuilles volantes anatomiques | fr |
| dc.subject | iconographie | fr |
| dc.subject | mythologie | fr |
| dc.subject | psychanalyse (Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan) | fr |
| dc.title | Le sexe féminin et le regard de l’Autre dans la « Visio prima » du Catoptrum microcosmicum de Remmelin : « entre la Méduse et l’abîme » | fr |
| dc.title.alternative | The Female Sex and the Gaze of the Other in the “Visio prima” of the Catoptrum microcosmicum by Remmelin: “Between Medusa and the Abyss” | en |
| dc.type | Article | |
| dc.page.number | 175-206 | |
| dc.contributor.authorAffiliation | Université de la Colombie-Britannique, Vancouver | fr |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2449-8831 | |
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| dc.contributor.authorEmail | nancy.frelick@ubc.ca | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.18778/1505-9065.21.10 | |