O corpo e suas narrativas. Envelhecimento feminino e culto ao corpo

Abstract

In the city of Rio de Janeiro there is an increasing number of mature women who have been seeking gyms and plastic surgery clinics in search for a young appearance as well as a body considered appropriate and attractive. The exacerbation of the body culture in our city has been driving a great contingent of women to radical body practices. Motivated by the media and by the medical speech these women are led to face the aging process, just as an hormonal or aesthetic matter, leaving aside the subjective aspects of aging. This article analyzes this frenzied search for the ideal body taking as conductive axis the existent differences between the body which is the object of medicine and the one which is the object of psychoanalysis. While the first one is basically organic the latter requires a narrative in order to implicate the subject in its own experience.