Troubled waters: female genital anxieties and watery embodiment

Abstract

The study aims to explore the feminine transcorporeal relations that are reflected in experiencing genito-urethral problems and their developmental, psychic, transcorporeal and psychosexual significance. My periurethral cystic lesion led me to explore my (water) relations through the interpretative framework of watery embodiment. What are the relational configurations, ontological and epistemological perspectives that relating with/in/from/to water can offer us? Do I fear leaking into the world when feeling urgency and lacking neuromuscular control of my sphincters? Do I exist in confusional state of relations, struggling to separate and deliver my subjective Self to the world? If we view our subjective selves in a state of constant becoming (as watery bodies), can we liberate ourselves from the entrapping categories of static groups and states such as binary perspectives of gender and sexuality?.