Abstract

CARDOSO, Marta Rezende; DEMANTOVA, Aline Gonçalves  and  MAIA, Gabriela Domingues Caetano Soares. Body and pain in scarifying behaviors in adolescence. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2016, n.46, pp.115-123. ISSN 0100-3437.

In this article we investigate the role of the body and pain scarification practices in view of its significant impact on teens. A passage from childhood to adulthood presupposes the presence of an internal psychic violence. The pubertal changes endanger the body's limits and can cause the subject to lose the sense of continuity of the self, resulting from an imbalance in the level of the psychic conflict. Acts of scarification in adolescence interrogate us about the internal repercussions of a radically transformed body, strongly focusing on the relationship between body and psyche and that existing between self and other. Pain perpetrated on the body itself is an archaic defensive feature, but working, paradoxically, as an attempt of the ego to appropriate it. This mode of act, of self-destructive nature, involves the projection into the body space of a struggle waged in the internal world where the ego is overflowed by the drive force.

Keywords : Scarification; Body; Pain; Adolescence.

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