The beauty of blood? Self-injury and ambivalence in an Internet community
The beauty of blood? Self-injury and ambivalence in an Internet community
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DOI：
10.1080/13676261.2010.533755
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Gottzen, Lucas
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作者：
Franzen, Anna Gradin;Gottzen, Lucas
本文分析了年轻的自残女性和男性如何将自己构建为“切割者”。该研究借鉴了瑞典互联网社区与自残行为相关的观察结果，并脱离了后结构主义框架，以分析成员如何在与自残相关的文化话语中定位自己和他人。网络社区中有两种主要的话语：“正常化”和“病态化”的话语，它们给出了自我伤害、自我切割和他们伤痕累累的身体的不同版本。在正常化的话语中，自残行为被认为是处理心理健康问题的合法做法，“切割者”是有弹性的，他们的血液和伤疤是美丽的。相反，在病态话语中，自伤行为被理解为道德上应受谴责，自我切割者是病态的，他们的身体是令人厌恶的。在Web社区中，成员调用这两种话语，这导致了矛盾的主题立场。本研究表明，两种话语中看似矛盾的主体立场实际上是相互依存的，因为成员们为了成为“真正的切割者”，既借鉴了正常化话语，也借鉴了病态话语。
The present article analyzes how young self-injuring women and men construct themselves as 'cutters.' The study draws on observations of a Swedish Internet community connected to self-injurious behavior and departs from a poststructuralist framework in order to analyze how members position themselves and others in relation to cultural discourses on self-injury. Two main discourses are identified in the Web community: the 'normalizing' and the 'pathologizing' discourses, which give contrasting versions of self-injury, self-cutters, and their scarred bodies. Within the normalizing discourse, self-injurious behavior is regarded as a legitimate practice for dealing with mental health problems, 'cutters' are resilient, and their blood and scars are beautiful. In contrast, within the pathologizing discourse self-injurious behavior is understood as morally reprehensible, self-cutters are pathological, and their bodies are repulsive. In the Web community, members invoke both discourses, which leads to ambivalent subject positions. This study shows that the seemingly contradictory subject positions of the two discourses in fact are interdependent on each other as members draw on both the normalizing and the pathologizing discourses in order to become 'authentic cutters.'.