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KMID : 0385320010120020185
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Journal of Korean Psychoanalytic Society
2001 Volume.12 No. 2 p.185 ~ p.205
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The Psychology of Clothes
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Cho Doo-Young
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Abstract
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The psychoanalytic exploration in clothes began in 1928, in London, by J.C. Flugel, and studies of psychosocial aspect of it in late 1940s. The clothes one is wearing tell us at once something of one’s sex, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, social standing, and thus enable us to make a preliminary adjustment of our behavior towards him, long before the more delicate analysis of feature and of conversation can be attempted. According to Flugel, the clothes serve three main purpose-decoration, modesty, and protection. Careful study seems to show that more primitive than either modesty or decoration, there exists a simple joy in the exercise and display of the naked body, which came from autoerotic(muscle and skin eroticism) and narcissitic pleasure. Female sex is far more decorative than the male. But of savages the opposite is true, and with the majority of animal species the male is more ornamental than the female. Modesty is more frequently to be seen among the women. Where the motive of decoration in the chief one, men are more amply clothed than women, and where modesty plays a larger part in clothes women wear more than men. Garma emphasized that clothing is unconsciously perceived as a substitute for the fetal membrane, and as maternal protection. Burgler pointed men’s unconscious fear of female body, which led men to invent clothing for themselves and later to force women to cover their bodies with clothes. Burgler also explained female narcissism and vanity, expressed through an onsession with clothes, in part, as a defense against the deeper masochistic fantasy, ’nobody loves me!’, and the problem of conspicuous tastlessness in dress as the result of a neurotic inhibition. The style of women’s dress have been changed in the West along the changes of socio-cultural and ethical values, particularly in recent years, while there were little changes in men’s wear. The fachion designers are mostly overt or covert male homosexuals nowdays.
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KEYWORD
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Clothes, Psychology, Psychoanalysis
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