A beleza e a feiura na contemporaneidade
Clarissa Dubeux BarrosPsicóloga, Mestre em Psicologia Clínica -UNICAP e Doutoranda em Psicologia Social -UFPB
Resumo:Os conceitos de belo e feio são definidos a partir dos períodos históricos e das culturas. As atribuições de beleza ou de feiura, voltadas aos critérios estéticos, estão intrinsecamente ligadas aos aspectos políticos, morais e sociais. O feio, estranho e deformado exercia uma atração do olhar do outro, no começo do século XIX. O cuidado com a aparência tem se tornado exacerbado na contemporaneidade e promovido concepções de beleza apoiada pela nova ordem da redefinição do corpo humano, e atrelado às tecnologias médicas. Compreender essas mudanças implica em perceber a representação do corpo na contemporaneidade no qual se aporta na noção de ascese corporal ou bioascese.Palavras chaves: história da feiura, corpo, ascese corporal.
This paper discusses the potential for accessing the intersubjective psychic dynamics that the use of oral diaries about everyday life can offer to Psychology, from an ideographic, cultural, and qualitative perspective. Based on the authors’ experience with this research activity mediated by instant messaging applications, we argue about the singularity produced by such a field of elaboration of meanings regarding the affective, ambiguous and potentially creative and authorial face of such enunciations. The use of this research instrument took place during critical periods of the COVID-19 pandemic, a historical moment marked by a profound decentering of forms of life, which was the driving force behind significant cultural mutations both in the personal and collective spheres. We propose that the instrument provided interpretative access to three fundamental records of experience, namely: corporeality, temporality, and the meaning-making process.
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