Na interface psicanálise e cultura: a vigorexia em praticantes de fisiculturismo como uma das expressões do mal-estar atual

Abstract

This research has the general objective of investigating how psychoanalytic references can contribute to the understanding of muscular dystrophy in bodybuilding practitioners. The specific objective is to articulate muscular dystrophy with forms of contemporary malaise. We seek to establish a dialogue in the psychoanalysis and culture interface, therefore, in the extension of the psychoanalytic method, proposed by Freud as applied psychoanalysis, based on a bibliographic survey, documentaries, insertions, and posts by athletes in a public group on Facebook. The analysis of the above-regulated material that muscular dystrophy gains strength in a society that encourages individualism and narcissistic forms of subjectivation that encourage the “glorification of the self” and the “aestheticization of existence”, in the words of Joel Birman. In this scenario, bodybuilders are subject to the conditions of possibility of developing muscular dystrophy, since the assessment of sports performance is restricted to body aesthetics and visual performance on stage during how, coach always the ideal, perfect body, but which is never high. The hypothesis considered is that muscular dystrophy could be considered contemporary psychopathology, a form of psychic suffering that expresses in its symptomatology the complexity of the emerging modes of subjectivation. Therefore, it would be one of the expressions of the daily malaise marked in the body and action registers, while language is impoverished; and, as subject bodies seek to meet the ideal of beauty of today, muscular dystrophy ends up not being perceived as a symptom by bodybuilders, but as a lifestyle that many values and crave.