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AESTHETIC AND MORAL EMOTIONS AS REASON FOR SELF-HARM
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Self-harm is a frequent and very problematic behavior that expresses the adolescent's specific relationship to himself and especially to his/her body. The present study focuses on the ambivalent relationship between art and self-harm. The subject of the research is the analysis of selected factors of illustration and artistic expression of self-harm in society (especially in art or on social networks) and their influence on the growth of self- harm, especially in the young generation. We present psychological concepts that from different perspectives explain the phenomenon of self-harm (e.g., psychodynamic, cognitivist, biological concepts), while we focus mainly on those circumstances that lead to the motivation of individuals to execute self-harm and come from the field of moral/social action. The core of the study is to clarify the relationship between aesthetic and moral emotions and self-harm in young people with an emphasis on specific aesthetic and artistic components. The paper considers selected reasons for the aesthetic appeal of (self-) suffering and focuses on the visual rhetoric of bodily self-harm as a means to make the inner world of the individual visible. On the other hand, the study also presents the potential benefits of art in the treatment of self-harm and its consequences in the form of camouflage tattoos, or artistic reflection of the Japanese Kintsugi ideal, which help individuals to process and cope with negative and visible consequences of their actions.
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