Francisco Romão Ferreira

A produção de sentidos sobre a imagem do corpo

This article presents some ways to produce meanings regarding body image from a bibliographic review based on studies by authors in the fields of anthropology, sociology, philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. According to these authors, the body is constructed socially and is modeled through social conventions that reproduce the symbolic, cultural or political conflicts of each society. The body materializes the subject vs. society relationship, thereby reflecting the dialogue between biology and symbolism with regard to constructing subjectivity, because subjectivation processes are built in direct relationship with the body. From the authors cited in the text, we will see that sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis or anthropology, singly, do not enable understanding of and/or explanations for the complexity involved in producing meanings regarding the body.

Algumas considerações acerca da medicina estética

In this article, we will discuss some aspects of the construction of the meanings concerning the body from the scientific speech which was modeled based on modern thinking and became the hegemonic thinking of some sectors of the medical field. Meanings attributed to the body bring questions that come from other areas of the social life and those questions will build the aesthetic parameters which will be part of the identity construction, in the relation with the body itself, subjectivity and healthcare. We will describe some moments of the construction of the modern scientific thought and how this thought became hegemonic, influences the common sense, naturalizes identity construction and how dealing with the body, interferes in the healthcare, show a division among some sectors of the biomedicine, reinforce an specific type of medical rationality and makes an epistemic base and principle (theoretical and discursive) to some sectors connected to aesthetic medicine and aesthetic surgeries.

The production of meanings regarding body image

This article presents some ways to produce meanings regarding body image from a bibliographic review based on studies by authors in the fields of anthropology, sociology, philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. According to these authors, the body is constructed socially and is modeled through social conventions that reproduce the symbolic, cultural or political conflicts of each society. The body materializes the subject vs. society relationship, thereby reflecting the dialogue between biology and symbolism with regard to constructing subjectivity, because subjectivation processes are built in direct relationship with the body. From the authors cited in the text, we will see that sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis or anthropology, singly, do not enable understanding of and/or explanations for the complexity involved in producing meanings regarding the body.

La producción de sentidos sobre la imagen del cuerpo

This article presents some ways to produce meanings regarding body image from a bibliographic review based on studies by authors in the fields of anthropology, sociology, philosophy, psychology and psychoanalysis. According to these authors, the body is constructed socially and is modeled through social conventions that reproduce the symbolic, cultural or political conflicts of each society. The body materializes the subject vs. society relationship, thereby reflecting the dialogue between biology and symbolism with regard to constructing subjectivity, because subjectivation processes are built in direct relationship with the body. From the authors cited in the text, we will see that sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis or anthropology, singly, do not enable understanding of and/or explanations for the complexity involved in producing meanings regarding the body.