The fashionable body

Abstract

Body supports life; then body builds itself with each subject’s history. Consumption society and science claim they can give an answer to questions inherent in life by intervening directly on our organism, and they forget our body, which, as a consequence, in some cases, results in crushing our subjectivity and hence bringing suffering to human beings. This paper intends to present some breaking points to help thinking on contemporary symptoms as a potential response to our era’s demands.