According to Stephen Barber == "For Artaud, the body is all there is, and his preoccupation is with always giving pre-eminence to the body — which he sees as the raw material for his projects of refiguring life, death, society, perception — rather than constructing a body/mind or body/spirit dialogue, as many writers have. Artaud attempts to expunge everything that is not the body, and then to make what remains of the body dense, vital and gestural. The body isn’t necessarily in torment in his work, though he emphasizes that the signs or gestures made by the body under pressure or in turmoil are those that best resist the processes of representation."