The loss of the body's "social vitality"
 

on 8 Duden cites Mumbleched: "Between the sixteenth and eighteenth century the culture of the elites invents and applies a 'political technology of the body'"
 
"A violent process began in the seventeenth century, one in which the body as the embodiment of localized social vitality was broken" -- Duden sees the witch trials as part of this process
 
see also note on "the magic of the body"

> from Barbara Duden's The Woman Beneath The Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany (1998)

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