Corpos marcados: adolescência e ideais na contemporaneidade

Abstract

Adolescence may be considered a stage that establishes an individual, as it arises from the questioning and deposition of parental models, reconstruction of self-image, as well as one's role at the social circle. This new process of organizing and structuring will have the cultural basis as of utmost importance. For the adolescent, the issues over these changes materializes themselves on modifications over his body and on new sensations, which follow it and on the new position this body occupies in his history. The central role played by the body function in the contemporary cultural ideals, linked to the overestimation of the values of sensations, promotes an intensification of this way of living the corporeality and at this stage body marks may act as a historical print symbol chosen in this rebuilt body. Through this association of factors, tatooing and piercing have an increased importance to the adolescent individual who, starting from a period of cultural references replacement, marks his own skin with the takeover of his new body and with his unexplored symbolic place in social community, nevertheless without giving up his compliance to the cultural game. This study, psychoanalytic referenced, aims to investigate the effects of contemporary values in its relation with psychological repercussions typical from the adolescence. Beyond this point, it aims to analyze these relations with increased usage of body marks starting from concepts of ideals and body historicity.