Writing the body: jouissance and social bond. The objective of this paper, based on Psychoanalysis contributions, is to discuss the contemporary body writing, such as cuts, scarifications and tattoos, to discuss how they can help to make possible and singular the social bonds between subjects and the Other. Writing leaves tracks, vestiges of the drive paths, remnants of thinking and enables some connection to the common world, giving way to restraining jouissance by means of a repertoire of traces. In many cases, these acts of writing supply the paternal function allowing those who did not undergo the unary inscription of the voice of the Other in their own flesh, so they can have access to their own body.
writing; jouissance; body; psychoanalysis; contemporary times