For a rhythmic of the talking bodies: resonances between psychoanalysis and contemporary dance

Abstract

The body was the central theme of this psychoanalytic investigation, mainly referenced in Freud, Lacan and Dolto, whose proposal was to dialogue with art, more specifically, contemporary dance. The objective was to investigate how the resonance between bodies is processed in the context of the language’s own misunderstandings and its unrepresentable remnants. Through the investigation of the body perspectives learned in the context of psychoanalysis and contemporary dance, it was presented that both theoretical and practical fields were responsible for deconstruction operations of the imaginary body individuality, indicating that the body should not be taken as something hermetically closed but as a paradoxical space for contemporary dance, and as a pulsional body for psychoanalysis. In this sense, the body is not confused with anatomy nor is it bounded by the skin or range of movement, it must be approached from its relational dimension, as something constructed and renewed in the dynamic space of the Other. In this space, psychoanalysis evokes words and subtle perceptions, and contemporary dance evokes gesture, as a means by which it is possible to recognize the establishment of a rhythm, constructed and captured by bodies that are in a state of living presence, open to the imaginary that articulates to the symbolic and to the real. Thus, our thesis was that the resonance between bodies refers to the instauration of a rhythm that is processed by subtle means, that range from prosody to the evocation of senses present in gestures, when addressed to the Other.