The search for self and identity in bodily transformations

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v28i2p235-248

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identity, self, body, development, being

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the main events and accomplishments of the identity constitution process according to Winnicott’s experience of the emotional development. It is, in terms of path, or method, a proposal of psychoanalytic theory applied to the understanding of behavioral phenomena in the public domain. To study this process, our analysis is based on the meaning given to the use of tattoos and other physical changes in cases involving modifications that are not merely adornments, they are more meaningful and part of the individual’s search of his own identity. We consider that identity, or a sense of identity, is associated with the following set of experiences: Am-ness, without predicate; Am-with, related to the transitional phenomena; I-Am-Diferent-From, when it is possible to accomplish the I AM status, differentiating oneself from the world; and I-Am-Predicable, when the individual reaches integration as a Whole Person, when it is possible to ask about the identity question: I am x (x is a predicate of the I).

 

 

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2023-08-20

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Fulgencio, L., & Humberg, L. V. (2023). The search for self and identity in bodily transformations. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 28(2), 235-248. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v28i2p235-248

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