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each the prey of their own pathos.” 95 The truth of pain lies in the one who feels it, forits register is too strong for us to verbalize it and, when there is language, it is metaphoric.96 If I suffer, it is because it is me that is the one who lives: “It is thereby thatpsychoanalysis separates itself from human sciences and resists Galilean reduction,specifically its linguistic reduction, inasmuch as, in the very heart of the devastation ofhumankind by objectivist knowledge and its absurd pretensions, it states and maintains,even without knowing it, the invincible right to life.” 97 But to feel ill (alienation of theoriginary auto-affection of the oneself) is today different from being ill since, incontemporary terms, the reification of the model of health is founded on common ground,a ground that is originarily uniting, in which the awareness of feeling and being becametwo distant modes of the appearing, going deeper into what Henry sought to overcome:the psychological epoché, the distance between world and originary truth, enabling theex-sistence of a oneself and a body that no longer belong to the world; in short, theovercoming of the ego’s disincarnation. The incarnate body is a suffering being, animpressional substance, permeated by a series of impressions (desire, fear) associated withthe flesh because it is constitutive of its substance. My flesh is what I experience phenomenologically,particular to my body (the invisible) and not the mere biological and molecularsubstratum (corps), the object of treatment, repair or change (the visible). Despitebeing subsidiary to the appearance of a carnality (experience of oneself), of a subjectiveexperience of the body not totally reducible to its corporality (physical materiality), theidea of “health” became an object of instrumentalized appropriation by biotechnologies.The emptying of the originarily impressional (and endless) character of Life by the attempt(s)to eliminate pain and suffering is precisely a consequence of this: “The impossibilityof breaking the string that attaches life to itself, which is to say to escape itssuffering, increases the latter, exasperates the will to escape it and, in turn, and simultaneously,the feeling of its helplessness, the feeling of Oneself as an originary impossibilityof escaping oneself, a feeling which finally reaches its peak and resolves itself inanguish.” 98 Subject to the model of “seeing,” thought overlooks its own living reality,its knowledge becomes a science of objects that disregards man.95969798Ibid., 163.Cf. David le Breton, Anthropologie de la douleur (Paris: Metaillé, 1995).Henry, La Barbarie, 163.Ibid., 129.168