xvii. Davies comments:
I think that by using a fully enveloping virtual environment, one can get closer to recreating the sensation of being ... I release people from these physical constraints and allow them to experience “being" in a slightly different way. It almost refreshes their perception, so they can rediscover what it feels like to be here when they come back out into the world. (Wettheim, "Out of this World," 1)
See also Char Davies, Artist's Statement, 01010101.
xviii. Though it is beyond the aim of the present purpose, the issue of gender in relation to psychasthenia and the lived spatiality of the body would concern the adequacy of representation as a means to account for it. On this score, let me simply note that I have certain reservations concerning Grosz's account of the "constitution of the subject's sexed body through various forces of signification and representation-the meaning the body has for others and for itself, its socioeconomic constitution as a subject, and, above all, the psychical, economic, and libidinal constitution of bodies as sexually differentiated, as sexually specific" (193). As I see it, this account too narrowly circumscribes the domain where sex matters. One would, instead, have to ask how sex enters into the phenomenal experience of lived spatiality as I here reconstruct it.
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