THE FEMALE BODY IN AESTHETICS: A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING

Authors

  • KARINA CARVALHO VERAS DE SOUZA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2010.2793

Abstract

The aesthetics surgeries in the body, with frequency much more higher between the women and at the same time exalted significantly for the propaganda and the social context, has been configured currently as new way of expression to the feminine body.  We question then, which significations are imputed to this body image, whose women submit aesthetics surgeries.  In such a way, we objectify to analyze, from the psychoanalytic point of view: how the construction of the corporal image happens in the process of becoming woman; which problematical are disclosed by these women referring to the idealizations narcissists of this body and that way are configured in the feminine imaginary the cult to the body of the present time.  According to this, we collected, simultaneously, some speech of women whom already have had submitted to such surgeries and after that we made an analysis of speech of these contents, in order to chain in one comprehension psychoanalytic of the problematical now argued.

Keywords: body, feminine, body image, aesthetics surgery

Author Biography

KARINA CARVALHO VERAS DE SOUZA

Psicóloga; Especialista em Psicologia da Saúde pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte - UFRN (2003/2004); Mestre em Psicologia Clínica na linha de pesquisa em Psicopatologia Fundamental e Psicanálise pela Universidade Católica de Pernambuco – UNICAP (2005/2007); Professora do Curso de Graduação de Psicologia da Universidade Potiguar – UnP desde 2006, lecionando as disciplinas de Psicopatologia Geral; Psicopatologia da Criança e do Adolescente; Psicologia do adulto. Atualmente coordena a pesquisa nos Trabalhos de Conclusão de Curso na graduação em Psicologia. Psicanalista em formação - Membro da Associação dos Fóruns do Campo Lacaniano – Fórum Natal.

Published

2012-03-27

How to Cite

DE SOUZA, K. C. V. (2012). THE FEMALE BODY IN AESTHETICS: A PSYCHOANALYTIC READING. POLÊM!CA, 9(3), 65 a 71. https://doi.org/10.12957/polemica.2010.2793

Issue

Section

DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANO