Riscos, cortes e o furo: notas sobre a inscrição do corpo de uma adolescente

Abstract

This research presented, as an object, the body and its effect on a teenager. This work introduced the body from the pluralization of the names-of-the-father, mainly based on Lacan’s nodes’ topology formulations. It operated as a concept of the body crossed by language. This study was based on the psychoanalytic method, in which the construction of the clinical case occurred through the Klein bottle topology method. The case was built upon a young woman named Mariana (17 years old), who frequently did interventions on her body, especially the insertion of piercings. Work was done regarding the concept of adolescence as a favourable period for the (re)editing of paternal versions. Based on the singular perspective of the participant’s body handling in this study, it was hypothesized whether it could exert the effect of binding psychic records. A dual dynamic with the body was observed: subjugation and insubordination. In this teenager’s case, subjugation was noticed in her position of object-waste for the enjoyment of the Other. Insubordination emerged in attempts to separate from the word of the absolute Other. It was concluded that a subjective artifice in the body prevents the outbreak of a psychosis, maintaining some stabilization in the existence, certainly not without some risks, cuts and holes.