The event took the form of a dynamic dialogue, concluding with a practical exercise and a self-testing session.

During the lecture, the speaker and the audience unpacked key questions around body perception through the lenses of culture, psychoanalysis, and contemporary social trends:

• The Evolution of the “Ideal” Body: How societal concepts of beauty, normality, and acceptability are formed, and why they constantly shift across different historical contexts.
• The Body Positivity Phenomenon: Is this movement a genuine form of emancipation or is it gradually turning into a new normative standard — and why is it criticized in modern theory?
• Control and Judgment: Where does society’s need to regulate the bodies of others come from, and why do certain expressions of corporeality still trigger intense social reactions?
• The Cult of Youth and the Fear of Aging: What truly lies behind the pursuit of eternal youth and body modification practices, and what underlying anxieties do they conceal?
• Mechanisms of Social and Internal Control: How power institutions and the media shape our ideas of the “correct” body.