A transcendência da pele : corporeidade em tempos hipermodernos – uma reflexão fenomenológica

Abstract

The present study approaches the question of corporeity from the skin and its transcendence, assayed phenomenologically, having as an articulating resource the movie 'The skin I live in', and as an underlying social and reflexive scenario, hypermodernity intersected by several variants and contingencies. Faced with the dictates of a fluid society, consumption and exacerbations, the body, circumscribed by its skin and existence, has as prerogatives the possibilities of transcendence. This can occur when 'inhabiting' a skin means to inhabit guiding meanings of life, beyond the measures imputed to this lived, intimate and emotional body, which also needs to maintain its uniqueness and presence as being-there-in-the-world and to be itself, appropriated of itself and at the same time transcendent to its skin.