Musical mark on the body: a musicological psychoanalytic study

Abstract

This research encompasses the intersection between the journeys of the subjective musical pleasure, its manifestations and affective expressions through both listening and playing as well as the pleasure of marking oneself with tattoos, specifically those explicitly music-related. I took into consideration how music arrived at the body though such artistic marks, linking one's personal aesthetic, the identification process and body image inked by tattoos, its music and affective aspects. With that in mind, it was possible to discuss music as an element of psychic mediation capable of transforming and changing the way we speak, listen and understand such psychic aspects. Therefore the dialogue between psychoanalytic practices and musical literature as a representation of affective aspects could be discussed.