Scarry admits that expressing other people’s pain is difficult, but pain can be transcended into the visible world through words. For example, when somebody talks about torture, we can imagine the type of pain the victim experienced.
In “The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World,” Elaine Scarry introduces the term “analogical verification” to describe material culture and material self-expression as referents to the body in pain. How do “felt-attributes” of pain transcend into the visible world by attaching pain to a referent other than the human body?
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