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The more the body has been declared obsolete, the more it has started to occupy the center-stage in public and private life. From the docile body (Foucault) via the talking body in Freud’s psychoanalyses to Haraway’s surface body, one can follow its history. With the arrival of the cyborg in the so called post-human epoch the body has been reduced to something which can be shaped, transformed and improved without affecting the subject. The subject has been thrown out of the bath through the uncanny marriage of anti-humanist thinking and a postmodern perception of the human being. But the human being cannot ignore its doubled constitution: as a being of need and of desire at the same time. Three figures - the cyborg, the anorexic and the angel - indicate in different ways the double bind of the human being.Bolj ko so telo razglašali za zastarelo, pomembnejše mesto je zavzemalo v javnem in zasebnem življenju. Njegovi zgodovini lahko sledimo od pokornega telesa pri Foucaultu in govorečega telesa v Freudovi psihoanalizi do površinskega telesa pri Harawayevi. S prihodom kiborga v tako imenovani posthumani dobi je bilo telo omejeno na nekaj, kar je mogoče oblikovati, preobraziti in izpopolniti, ne da bi pri tem kakorkoli prizadeli subjekt. Skrivnostna poroka antihumanistične misli in postmodernega zaznavanja človeškega bitja je izvzela subjekt. Toda človek ne more ignorirati svoje dvojne konstitucije: kot bitja potrebe in kot bitja želje hkrati. Tri figure - kiborg, anoreksičar in angel - na različne načina nakazujejo dvojno vez človeškega bitja