Self-harm and identity formation

Self-harm and identity formation

Knowledge/power and modes of subjectivation

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Certain fields of knowledge have stood out in the study of self-harm, including psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis. These fields of knowledge differentiate acts of self-harm as part of a specific culture or religious ritual from self-harming practices that are attributed to pathologies. The latter are considered acts of self-destruction produced by people who need specialist intervention to stop hurting themselves. We start from the assumption that self-harm is a mode of subjectivation constructed and transformed by different discourses depending on the sociocultural context in which i...