The topic of this diploma work is about the reflections on biological and cultural determination of female beauty. By research of these two fields, this work is concerned with the inquiry of their correlative relation in the aesthetic ideal of the female beauty in nowadays, primarily in the expressions of the highest aesthetization nearly of its artificiality of body. This work examines to what extent the biological determination of the body interacts in the aesthetization process. First, the work outlines the biologically determinated preferences of the female physical attraction through the evolutionary process of sexual selection and it supports their relevance by the Darwinian theory about the existing taste in animal world. This work introduces the cultural determination on female beauty on the platform of society designated expressions of the aesthetization of female body, fully expanded from nineteenth century, and the reflection on correlative relation of these two inseparable fields is discussed on the background of the highest aesthetization process of female body in the context of its aesthetic ideal of nowadays. KEY WORDS body and corporeality, female beauty, biological determination, cultural determination, aesthetization, artificiality

La recherche porte sur les collectifs sectaires contemporains et la participation psychique singulière de l’adepte au sein du collectif. Après avoir déconstruit l’idée de manipulation mentale et d’une emprise transitive du gourou à l’égard de l’adepte, nous interrogeons, par la rencontre clinique (d’adeptes et d’ex-adeptes) et le paradigme du transfert qui s’en déduit, les enjeux psychiques du lien sectaire de l’adepte. Nous soutenons que la notion d’adepte, empruntée à la sociologie des religions, est impropre à indexer avec justesse une spécificité psychique du vécu d’emprise. En réponse aux approches psycho-victimologiques, les conditions de possibilité d’un discours non traumatique sont également explorées dans les rapports du sujet de l’individu avec le sujet du collectif. La thèse vise in fine l’écriture logique de la (ou des) discursivité(s) sectaire(s). / This research is about contemporary cults and the singular psychological involvement of the cult follower. After having deconstructed the notion of mind manipulation and the idea of a transitive control of the guru toward his/her follower, the author examines the psychological issue of the cult social link, by means of clinical encounters (with current or former followers) and within the paradigm of transference. The author shows that the notion of “cult follower”, which is borrowed from the sociology of religions, is inappropriate to indicate accurately the psychological specificity of the cult experience. In response to the victimological approaches, the conditions of possibility of a non-traumatic discourse are investigated within the relations between the individual subject and the collective subject. In fine, the thesis aims at the writing of the inherent logic of the cult discursivity(ies).