The jouissance of the body’s cuts and the distorded speech

Abstract

The phenomenon concerning to the teenagers’ torn bodies and their cut, lacerated, mutilated skin, is increasingly manifesting in our times of narcissistic ideals and imperatives of violent joy. This paper, theoretical and clinical, seeks to provide with psychoanalytic reflections about the signification acquired by the cuts on the torn bodies of self-lacerating teenagers. The research procedure and method consisted on the implementation of clinical interviews to a subject who gave account of his story by means of the testimony on his own experience with his violated body. Results show the link between the subject’s discursive violence and fragmentation, and the violence that occurs in the body-cutting act, as well as the clinical effect on the subject due to his speech transformation from the re-significations that arise during the process of free word performance itself within the research subject’s testimonial act.