Identidade à flor da pele : contemporaneidade, corpo e ressonâncias na clínica psicanalítica

Abstract

The body has acquired a remarkable prominence as a measure to define contemporary identities, and this condition brings with it repercussions in the conformation of subjectivities – and also in the discourses produced by and about them. This paper aims to understand and expound the role performed by corporal image in the present days, and also to illustrate some of its consequences and developments found in the clinical narratives. For this purpose, it is made a description of the current period characteristics, to demonstrate how these attributes are connected to the body image aggrandizement, to narcissism exacerbation and to the superficiality and exteriority of what is understood as identity.