Physical suffering is instrumentalized to annihilate the human person through the body

Evidence

The aim of all these methods, in any case, is to manipulate the human body—with its infinite possibilities of suffering—in such a way as to make it destroy the human person as inexorably as do certain mental diseases of organic origin. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1017

Categorization

• XREF: The body as route to destroying personhood connects to genealogical/biopolitical theorizing of race and the body (Foucault, Agamben). — connects to: All human achievement depends on a repressed hatred of the mortal body; The body becomes an anagram dispersed across wounds and automobile metallurgy — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 365; Extreme bodily abasement is imitative of Christ’s redemptive humiliation of the flesh — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1913