Abstract

SILVA JUNIOR, Nelson da  and  GASPARD, Jean-Luc. Freudian ellipses: the practices and uses of the body as a symptom of neoliberal subjectivity. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2016, vol.38, n.61, pp. 109-119. ISSN 0101-3106.

Assuming that in Psychoanalysis the individual suffering refers to general forms of speech, we aim to discuss the methodological assumptions which enable the Freudian thought to infer the social conditions of possibility of individual suffering. Such assumptions allow Freud, in a second moment, to consider as symptomatic some discursive forms conventionally considered as normal. So, we attempt to take the body modifications as symptoms of the current culture , marked by what Lacan called the discourse of science and the capitalist discourse and which are organized upon what the neoliberal discourse prones as an ideal subject.

Keywords : Body modifications; Social pathologies; Masochism; Neoliberal subjectivity.

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