DUFOUR V., LESOURD S.

Scarifications, traces of nothing

 

Using their work with an adolescent girl who scarifies herself, the authors suggest that passages to the act involving the body be read as an attempt, differentiated by practice, to construct an object of desire. The scarifications carry out this operation by means of cutting, while piercing sustains it through drive excitation, which translates a differentiated relation between the subject and the Other.

Mots clés
Object (a), Scarification, Effects on the body, Autoeroticism.