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As the pain ebbed and flowed, Lena began to realize that Scarry was right: pain was not just a physical sensation, but a way of knowing the world. It was a way of understanding the fragility of the human body, the vulnerability of the human experience.

Scarry examines how political regimes use torture to "unmake" a person's world. By inflicting pain, the torturer replaces the victim’s voice and agency with the "sheer material factualness" of their own body to validate an ideology. The "Making": the body in pain elaine scarry pdf

Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World As the pain ebbed and flowed, Lena began