The Economy of Symbolic Violence over the Human Body: Historical and Philosophical Analysis

Aim. To conduct a historical and philosophical research to substantiate the relevance of the problem of a violent attitude of a person to his own body as an idealized image of the Other symbolically constituted ¹in time, which, as its impersonal counterpart, is recognized and experienced in the form of accumulated and incompletely realized in all its frustrated essence – capital.

Methodology. The results of this study were obtained based on the use of systemic and historical-philosophical analyses, using an interdisciplinary approach and a dialectical method, which together made it possible to comprehend the non-classical idea of the body as a fundamental source of a full-fledged self-determination of a person.

Results. According to the results of the study, it was revealed that in the process of capitalist self-actualization, a person, alienated from his own body, loses contact with it as a fundamental source of ensuring his holistic individuation, finding it in a symbolically contradictory and impersonal image of the Other, with whom he identifies himself, and thus dooms to a frustrated search for his full value in himself.

Research implications. The relevance of the analysis of various philosophical concepts of the 20th century lies in the non-classical approach to comprehending the formation of a person’s deconstructed idea of his own body as a utilitarian source of explication of economically self-sufficient existence.

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