Citations:deafferentiation


 * 1984,, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in , Picador (Reset 2007 edition, 2011 first reprinting), ISBN 9780330523622, page 57:
 * But her situation is, and remains, a ‘Wittgensteinian’ one. She does not know ‘Here is one hand’ – her loss of proprioception, her de-afferentiation, has deprived her of her existential, her epistemic, basis – and nothing she can do, or think, will alter this fact. She cannot be certain of her body – what would Wittgenstein have said, in her position?