Body modification
Body modification
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车身改装
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2006
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Asbed Aryan
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Asbed Aryan
Silvia Reisfeld presented a study into the meaning of tattoos, piercing, scarifi cation and other acts of aggression in adolescents against their own skin. She examined both individual and cultural dimensions and the interrelationship between these two factors. Hilda C. Catz’s paper focused on body modifi cations and scars specifi cally related to the special features of parental inscriptions in our culture which resulted from inscriptions across different generations. Lastly, Javier García presented a paper which emphasized the body as the object of these modifi cations, adornments and rituals. He drew attention to the fact that we were dealing with both an historic dimension infl uenced by ideologies from different periods of history, and also with an erogenous dimension seen in different forms of writing, which bring together different aspects of erogeneity and culture. He went on to detail the increasing popularity of tattooing and piercing, and, what is more alarming, body modifi cation by means of branding with heat and scarifi cation, or scars formed by cutting into the skin, a phenomenon which is gaining ground, in particular with adolescents and other urban groups. Reisfeld’s claim that tattooing has an elaborate intentionality was discussed. Some of the participants agreed that tattoo drawing is like a text to be deciphered and represents aspects of the ego and of the object, especially as an element that shows the mourning for a lost object. (Various clinical vignettes referred to the death of the father.) Other participants placed less importance on this idea and referred more to the actual act of body modifi cation: the alteration of the skin and the suffering and pain caused by this, which were seen as elements common to other acts of aggression against the skin, such as scarifi cation, branding, and the hanging of weights from a specifi c body part, causing stretching. It was suggested that, in the light of the above, the psychoanalytic meaning may have a darker, more individualistic side to it. Another participant recalled Freud (1919) and suggested that the following question be asked again: ‘Which child is being beaten and who is beating the child?’ This would mean considering not only the masochistic aspect of seeking out ways for pain to be infl icted on oneself but also, at the same time, considering the sadistic element and with whom the sufferer is identifying. There was general agreement when considering the defensive structure and the creation of a ‘second skin’ (Bick, 1968), as a replacement for what is lacking in the function of maternal containment at a mental level. Int J Psychoanal 2006;87:849–51