Open AccessReclaiming the Body Through Tattoos
Author(s) -
Sybele Macedo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2021.v17n22p37
Subject(s) - trace (psycholinguistics) , intervention (counseling) , subject (documents) , aesthetics , expression (computer science) , human body , sort , body piercing , psychology , psychoanalysis , art , medicine , philosophy , computer science , anatomy , linguistics , world wide web , information retrieval , psychiatry , programming language
Psychoanalysis has always addressed issues concerning the body. More recently, the proliferation of practices of aesthetic body intervention such as plastic surgery, piercings and tattoos have been calling the attention of psychoanalysts to their use and effects on the subject. This paper focuses on the analysis of the role of tattoos in reclaiming one’s body, which will be approached through the psychoanalytical discourse analysis of data retrieved from online magazines and blogs. The practice of tattooing has subjective implications on the relationship between the body and the self, revealing a fundamental trace of human beings: the need to process traumatic events and give them some sort of tolerable expression.