penis
1670s, perhaps from Fr. pénis or directly from L. penis "penis," earlier
"tail," from PIE *pes-/*pesos- "penis" (cf. Skt. pasas-, Gk. peos,
posthe "penis," probably also O.E. fæsl "progeny, offspring," O.N.
fösull, Ger. Fasel "young of animals, brood"). The proper plural is
penes. The adjective is penial. In psychological writing, penis envy is
attested from 1924.
pain from /kwei/, to pay or atone
penis from /pes/, tail...
On 10/27/12 8:22 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
I know this is obvious to say, but I wonder if one goes back to
Indo-European roots, if there might not be a relationship between PIE
and penis? Certainly in the confused male world of psychoanalytics,
the penis figures heavily in pain; one only has to think of Bob
Flanagan (and others) again. -
- Alan
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote:
pain, n. late 13c., "punishment," especially for a crime; also
"condition
one feels when hurt, opposite of pleasure," from O.Fr. peine
"difficulty,
woe, suffering, punishment, Hell's torments" (11c.), from L. poena
"punishment, penalty, retribution, indemnification" (in Late Latin also
"torment, hardship, suffering"), from Gk. poine "retribution, penalty,
quit-money for spilled blood," from PIE *kwei- "to pay, atone,
compensate"
(see penal). The earliest sense in English survives in phrase on pain of
death. "Pain" seems to be related thus to "pay," and remorse, or its
display, is intimately related to concepts of justice and retribution.
Public displays of screaming penitence under torture, in
pre-Enlightenment
Europe, and current media coverage of trials in which the faces and
demeanor
of the defendants are scrutinized for signs of remorse...which are
weighed
in consideration of a just penalty... this idea of paying with
emotion, how
does it tie in with empathy?
On 10/27/12 4:45 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
There's also the other Goffman book, Stigma, which is relevant
and excellent.
I remember one oddity during the Vietnam war - there was an
oddly apolitical stance, I think, among performance artists in
the US; one could watch an Acconci piece, for example, and read
political action into it, but it wasn't overt; what I remember
in conversation with him was mostly discussions about art which
was emerging out of modernism, but was still bound by a rather
linear idea of success, style, and progress.
- Alan
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