Body and Metaphors

Sport E & S 2001

http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/cerfee/article.php3?id_article=191

The Body and the Metaphors of the Engine.

Physical Education as a subject in France (school curriculum, policies and discourse). Elements used in the analysis of a power and control system during the Second Industrial Revolution.

samedi 2 novembre 2002.

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An analysis of several works by people who contributed greatly to the development of physical education in France from the middle of the 19th century to the 1960s enables us to pinpoint the rules underlying the specialized language used in this field and the metaphorical and mythological systems that were set up as systems of control over the body. Among these images, it is particularly interesting to examine how ’man’ came to be seen in terms of a steam engine, then as a machine, and even more generally as a humanized form of "productivity". Key words : Metaphors, mythology, systems of control, Physical Education, the body