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ULNIK, Jorge C.. Tattoo, artistic language and psychosomatic disease. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2016, vol.38, n.61, pp. 121-136. ISSN 0101-3106.

The discussion of the meaning of physical disorders and the symbolic capacity of psychosomatic patients when dichotomized (symbolize X does not symbolize), precludes the notion that there are different levels of symbolization. No matter if the most basic level did not deserve to be called symbolization, or if our design in layers or levels prevents us from differentiating exhaustively symbol and sign mode. What matters is that the analogies and equivalences acquire an enormous weight when the distance between representation and perception decreases and occupies an essential place, a third element - "the interpretant", that interacts with the previous ones, modifying them. We consider that the study of tattoos shows 1) how important it is for humans to take marks on his body, brands that can have very different meanings; 2) compared to psychosomatic phenomena, tattoos and scarification are the effect of the intervention of an agent - the tattooist - on bodies already given, while in the psychosomatic manifestations the agent seems intangible and the constitution of the body not finished. The representational art provides models, as well as tattoos, which are used to understand how the psychic is represented by somatic and vice versa. Just as the painting of each school or each culture has its own style, people and families also have their own style of getting sick. Just as the painting of each school or each culture has its own style, people and families also have their own style of getting sick. The style of speaking and of getting sick sometimes says as much as the words themselves, and it is part of the way that each one has to represent.

Palavras-chave : Tattoo; Representation; Psychosomatic phenomena; Levels of symbolization.

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