Citations:deafferentiation

English citations of de-afferentiation

• 1984, Oliver Sacks, “The Disembodied Lady”, chapter 3 in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Picador (Reset 2007 edition, 2011 first reprinting), →ISBN, 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?