The Dancing Body in Psychoanalysis

This work analyzes the dancing body from two perspectives: the first focuses on the new ways in which the voice and the gaze are inscribed, stemming from the bodily transformations of puberty and their effects on the relationship between the body and the spatio-temporal dimension. This dance is the very movement of the coming and going of every drive toward the invocation of the Other; a movement that produces the field of ambiguity, that introduces otherness, that allows the meaning of a new subject to emerge. It refers to the way in which each adolescent attempts to redefine their image toward a sexuation and also to their relationship with urban spaces. The second aspect considers dance as a choreography developed within a musical text. To appropriate a new bodily image, the adolescent exercises mastery over this body. Mastery of the drive field, of the overflow of the Real experienced with puberty. To illustrate these points, we take as an example capoeira, a typically Brazilian dance/fight that allows us to grasp the phenomenon of transitionality in this passage from adolescence to the adolescent's entry into the adult world.