Feminino, corpo e adolescência: pensando a automutilação a partir da psicanálise.

Abstract

In the contemporary world, the phenomenon of self-mutilation has a higher incidence in adolescent bodies aligned with the female. It was from this observation that in the present article we propose to think such practice under the bias of psychoanalysis. To do this, we sought to understand how the body, the feminine and the adolescence intertwine, producing a greater number of subjects practicing self-mutilation in this phase of life. A reading was made of Freud, Lacan and other contemporary psychoanalysts, who served as theoretical guides to the problem in question. Self-mutilation, in the current contours, was understood as a trans-structural phenomenon that touches the feminine in a peculiar way. This is done from the way the feminine relates to the body, an effect of what Lacan defines as the logic of not all-phallic jouissance. The higher incidence of self-mutilation in youth was also thought to be the effect of the phenomena of identification present today that are more incisively imprinted among adolescents. These, in the face of the bankruptcy of symbolic references organized (declining Name-of-the-Father), make use of self-mutilation as another way of socialization marked by the symptomatic pathway, in a phase of the subject's life where strangeness with a transforming body continually presents itself more intensely.