Cirurgia estética: subjetividade(s) no fio da navalha

Abstract

Nowadays the increasing interest of individuals in body modification to adjust to an ideal one has been noticed. Aesthetics sugery as one of these technologies has it boom in a social context where self care and body image are valued and turn a to be a way of contemporary subjectivation that leads to a sort of autonomy of the body to those individuals that use this technique. This survey development born from the concern caused by the perception of this phenomenon that has been more frequent in the contemporary society. The purpose of this survey is to investigate the reasons that make individuals use such procedures to modify theirs bodies and how these modifications(re)build their subjectivities. The objective was to analyse the individuals perceptions of their bodies before and after aesthetics surgeries; also to understand the reason why they chosen these procedures to change their bodies, studying how they (re)build their subjectivities the decision of developing a sociological survey on body modifications rood aesthetics surgeries considers a qualitative approach based on the constructivistphilosophical concept using phenomenology epistemological dimension. The date research was made by interview of three female an three male individuals that undergone aesthetic surgeries, on of them is a plastic surgeon.