“Plastic surgery changes me for the better”

“From this energy, creative ideas are born”

Diana, 27 years old, artist, interior and decoration designer

Beauty is my zone of maximum pleasure. If I feel beautiful, everything else goes well in my life, new professional projects appear. If something ceases to be pleasant in oneself, the leakage of energy begins.

I have had several plastic surgeries. And when they tell me that I’m just lazy and don’t go in for sports, I answer that training helps to tighten the body, but does not give a radically different physical shape.

I am sure that a dream is like a spring. When you do it, you are carried by an explosive wave to new distances. I bought beautiful shoes, cut my hair or had a facial procedure – and creative ideas are born from this energy. It seems that the process is primitive, but it works. And when I correct the face and body as I want, it gives me a double boost of energy to embody what is related to creativity and business.

I do not believe that nature is the final authority. A body designed by a doctor is much more interesting than a natural one. I am often told: a person who loves himself will not resort to tuning. Don’t confuse me with the girls who do it “for sale”. I do everything just for my own good mood.

If you look at what is profitable in the sponsors market, you can “put on” all this and enter the target audience of “givers”. And I do not look like a character that fits into this standard, and I try only for myself.

They ask me: “Why did you have operations, because you are already so good?” I am an artist, I like the visual picture, playing in utopia, creating around myself the aesthetics that interest me. That’s why I paint pictures, design houses, jewelry collections. And the modification of appearance is part of this game.

Our world is a projection: you can influence external events from within, by the power of your personality, but in the same way, really, acting from the outside, change your internal state. By changing myself outwardly, I come to a balance that pleases me. And when I feel that I can easily plasticize my face and body, I get the feeling that the whole world is plastic and supple.

“The heroine is quite conscious of bodily changes, but she walks on thin ice”

Marina Myaus, psychologist

Our heroine chooses the path of plastic surgery, but it follows from her story that this is not the only thing that interests her. We see a person who is passionate about work, creative projects. In addition, she analyzes the process of her own bodily changes, the feelings associated with this and the possible consequences.

She obviously does not have super-expectations that only operations will radically change her life. She openly says that she loves utopias, and experiments with appearance are a kind of performance. She does not go for operations due to the fact that certain standards are in demand from a partner or social environment, declaring that she does everything exclusively for herself and her pleasure.

And, it would seem, there is no obvious dependence on someone else’s opinion, suggesting that a person does not have his own space of goals and desires. Nevertheless, there is a certain dependence.

Changes in appearance run the risk of becoming doping, with the help of which energy is extracted, including for other areas of life. The heroine is walking on thin ice: unnecessary medical manipulations are dangerous, and the possibilities of the body are not unlimited. One day you will have to stop and learn how to generate vital energy in a different way.

I would like to hope that she will be able to say “stop” to herself in time and not fall into neurosis, but find a new, no longer bodily “well”, from which she will draw ideas and inspiration.

“Through the body that inevitably changes with age, we learn to accept the limitations of reality”

Lev Khegai, Jungian analyst

Since the time of Plato, European man has been sure that Truth, Goodness and Beauty are in unity. Therefore, we automatically perceive a person who devotes himself to beauty as doing right, good deeds. However, the feeling of being beautiful is necessary for the heroine to maintain the illusion of omnipotence.

Like many modern people infected with narcissism, she wants to “bend” the world under her, when in reality the world “bends” her. Her ambivalence towards social pressure is noticeable. She claims that she is guided by internal subjective criteria of beauty, but all the same, turning to plastic surgeons, cosmetologists and fashion trends, she does what the market wants from the consumer.

This is an example of the paradox of the narcissistic version of individualism: the more a person is concerned with expressing his individuality, the more he is at the mercy of collective stereotypes. Originality turns into banality. Instead of content, there is emptiness.

Through the body that inevitably changes with age, we learn to accept the limitations of reality. Recognizing the supremacy of the laws of nature over the boundless in its ingenuity of the human mind, we cultivate humility before something greater than our ego.

Although the heroine of the story likes to play that “the world is plastic and malleable” to her will, she will have to realize that the creation of true individuality and the depth of her own personality does not take place at the plastic surgeon, but in the conflicts and sufferings of real life, forcing us to rethink different phenomena, events, actions.