Transcending the Body–Culture Dichotomy in Jungian Thinking? More Questions Than Answers

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 56 (31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Boag
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solveig Skovmose Vinther

Artiklen belyser det koloniale og postkoloniale forhold mellem Grønland og Danmark og tegner et billede af danskerne syn på grønlandsk kropskultur gennem tiden.  Solveig S. Vinther: Body Culture in Greenland – seen from Denmark Since the formal end of colonialism, great emphasis has been put on research in postcolonialism and postcolonial issues. The basic idea in this kind of research is that colonisation is not only a matter of war, violence, and power relations; we also need to consider changes at a more unspoken and unheeded level. In Denmark however, the term Empire has never really been part of the Danish self-image, and only a small amount of postcolonial research have been conducted that focus specifically on the relationship between Denmark and its former colonies. This article will look at the ways in which the Danish colonisers have described the body culture of the Greenlanders through time. The postcolonial aspect of the project will centre on the ways in which the relations between the colonisers and the colonised can be read in the literature of the colonisers. The term Polarism will be introduced to develop an understanding of the Danish discourses describing the body culture of Greenland. The article will hopefully begin to answer some of the unanswered – and unasked – questions concerning the relationship between Denmark and Greenland through an analysis of games, sports and body culture and their representation in the colonial and postcolonial descriptions of Greenland.


2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Dimitri Wuo Pereria ◽  
Renan Oliveira De Paula ◽  
André Batista Da Silva ◽  
Camila Bianca Galindo ◽  
Vinicius Sampaio Feitoza Dos Santos

A observação de pessoas procurando praças, ruas, paredes de escalada, bancos, muros e rampas pela cidade, para se divertir e se exercitar representa um novo contexto de prática esportiva que esta pesquisa busca revelar. O objetivo deste estudo foi reconhecer os locais e atores das práticas de skate, escalada e slakline e suas motivações para a busca destas modalidades. Utilizou-se uma pesquisa descritiva exploratória com 46 sujeitos, sendo 16 escaladores, 20 skatistas e 10 slakliners, da cidade de São Paulo, que responderam um questionário desenvolvido especificamente para essas atividades. Os resultados apontaram que: Há predominância do sexo masculino entre os participantes, revelando um preconceito que ainda perdura na prática esportiva. Os escaladores têm média de idade maior do que os demais, talvez devido à necessidade de equipamentos mais caros, dos maiores riscos da prática e da necessidade de cursos para aprendizagem. Os skatistas em média praticam há mais tempo, provavelmente porque a cultura do skate é mais antiga e consolidada em São Paulo. Observa-se que no slakline todos praticam a menos de três anos mostrando que é uma modalidade ainda recente no cenário nacional. Os participantes da pesquisa afirmam ter aprendido sozinhos, ou com amigos e familiares, evidenciando-se nesse aspecto que a Educação Física não é considerada como iniciação. Os sujeitos apontam o ganho de benefícios físicos, mentais e sociais nas suas vidas e sua intenção de continuar a prática pela qualidade de vida, diversão, evolução física e psicológica. Apenas 10,8% afirmam competir, o que mostra que os esportes radicais são considerados na perspectiva da participação voluntária. Conclui-se que os esportes radicais estão sendo incorporados à rotina das pessoas, acrescentando novo contorno à cultura corporal, numa busca de superação, de enfrentamento de desafios, do controle do risco, do prazer, e da qualidade de vida. Fica evidente que há uma distância entre a formação dos profissionais de Educação Física e estas novas práticas.ABSTRACT.  Extreme sports through urban environment in the São Paulo City.  The observation of people looking for squares, streets, climbing walls, benches, walls and ramps around the city to have fun and exercise represents a new context of sports practice that this research seeks to reveal. The objective of this study was to recognize the places and actors of skateboarding, climbing and slakline practices and their motivations for the search of these sports. Exploratory descriptive research was used with 46 subjects, 16 climbers, 20 skaters and 10 slakliners, from the city of São Paulo, who answered a questionnaire developed specifically for these activities. The results showed that: There is predominance of males among the participants, showing a prejudice that still persists in sports practice. Climbers have a higher average age than others, perhaps due to the need for more expensive equipment, greater risks of practice and the need for courses to learn. Skaters on average have been practicing for more time, probably because the skate culture is older and consolidated in São Paulo. It is observed that in slakline all practice less than three years showing that it is a modality still recent in the national scenario. The participants of the research affirm to have learned alone, or with friends and family, evidencing in this aspect that the Physical Education is not considered like initiation. The subjects point out the gain of physical, mental and social benefits in their lives and their intention to continue the practice by quality of life, fun, physical and psychological evolution. Only 10.8% claim to compete, which shows that Extreme Sports are considered from the perspective of voluntary participation. It is concluded that Extreme Sports are being incorporated into the routine of the people, adding a new contour to the body culture, in a search for overcoming, facing challenges, control of risk, pleasure, and quality of life. There is evidence that there is a gap between the graduation in Physical Education professionals and these new practices.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Guenther Carlos Feitosa De Almeida

The body becomes the object of intense study and investigations with the modernity. But he was not the object of indifference. Even with the denial of the bodily pleasures that the average age undertook, the body was object of attention and normalization, being understood in a double meaning, the sacred and the profane. The relation body and nature gains different contours with the birth of modern science, giving rise to new dualities, between matter and spirit or psyche. Such dualities have produced enduring and persistent meanings in bodily practices and body conceptions. Physical Education as an area of knowledge and intervention that has in the body culture its privileged object, inherits and re-signifies such conceptions, reproducing or breaking with dualistic practices and understandings of the relation body and nature. This essay seeks to discuss the relationships between body and nature as well as its implications for the formation of the academic and professional field of Physical Education. We seek to reflect on the social-historical constructions on the body, especially those centered on biological aspects. We understand that the relationship body nature is an important point of understanding the uniqueness and continuities on the conceptions of body. In this way we undertake a qualitative, historical and sociological analysis centered on authors who elucidate these questions, such as: Corbin, Courtine e Vigarello (2010), Gélis (2010), Suassuna et al. (2005), Vaz (1999), Csordas (2008) and Le Breton (2003). Based on the elements discussed by the authors, we identify ruptures and continuities in relation to conceptions and practices with the body, remaining a desire for the split between body and spirit/mind.


1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Jaqueline Santos Barboza ◽  
Rosana Elizete Tavares ◽  
Yolanda Christina de Sousa Loyola ◽  
José Antonio Dias Garcia

Este estudo procurou abordar a questão do uso de anabolizantes por adolescentes  e apontar suas  consequências  biológicas  e psicossociais, bem como identificar as possíveis relações entre a adesão e a existência de modelos de beleza corporal. Entende-se que o corpo é conceituado e valorizado de acordo com o momento histórico e com os padrões determinantes de cada cultura. Diante de uma acentuada preocupação com  a  estética  corporal,  observa-se  que  vários  meios  são disponibilizados, com o objetivo de obter uma modelagem corporal, dentre  eles  os  anabolizantes,  representando  uma  alternativa  de  baixo custo e acesso facilitado. Contudo, as alterações fisiológicas e as patologias causadas pela ingestão dos anabolizantes assinalam risco de morte ao usuário, pois acarretam danos em órgãos vitais e alteram praticamente toda a homeostase corporal. As consequências psicológicas, por sua vez, têm impacto no social, já que as alterações de humor provocadas pelo uso de hormônios tendem a se manifestar em comportamentos agressivos, o que pode causar prejuízos relacionais. Conclui-se disto que alguns efeitos são opostos aos supostos objetivos de obtenção do corpo ideal e/ou de uma beleza padrão.   Palavras chave: esteroides anabolizantes, adolescência, cultura corporal.   ABSTRACT This study aimed to address the issue of the use of anabolic agents by adolescents and their biological and psychosocial consequences, as well as identify the possible relation between accession and the existence of models of body beauty. It is understood that the body is respected and valued  according  to  the  historic  moment  and  the  standards     that determine each culture. On a concern with the aesthetic body, it is noted that various means are available to obtain a corporal modeling among anabolic, representing low cost and easy access alternative. The physiological changes and diseases caused by ingestion of anabolic can cause an imminent risk of death to the user, because they may cause entail   damage   to   vital   organs,   and   change   virtually   the   entire homeostasis. The psychological consequences, on the other hand, have an impact on social changes of humor caused by the use of hormones and tend to result in aggressive behaviour, which can cause relationship damage. It is concluded that some effects are opposite to the supposed goals for obtaining a body ideal and/or standard beauty.   Keywords: anabolic steroids, adolescence, body culture.


2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 648-649
Author(s):  
Charles Chubb
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Azzarito ◽  
Melinda A. Solmon

The study of the social construction of the body has become crucial to contemporary academic discourses in education and physical education. Employing feminist poststructuralist theory and a qualitative ethnographic design, this study investigated how high school students identified themselves with images of bodies drawn from fitness and sports magazines, and how their body narratives were linked to their participation in physical education. Students’ body narratives reflected notions of comfortable, bad, and borderland bodies that influenced students’ physical activity choices and engagement in physical education. Girls’ narratives of their physicality were found to be significantly less comfortable than boys’. Critical pedagogy to destabilize gendered dominant discourses of mass media body culture and to develop positive, meaningful, and empowering student physicality is discussed.


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