The body modifications presented in this survey include tattooing, body piercing, sub-dermal implanting and any other kinds of physical interventions, involving painful procedures that might generate an extreme transformation, coming out as the coverage of a large or even the total body surface. Carried out for non-medical purposes, these modifications are outside the social aesthetic standards. The following research seeks a reflection on the relationship between body and psyche, exploring notions of sensoriality, body memories, early newborn experiences and the Other s part to play in the psychic and physical constitution of the subject for a better comprehension on how the body have been perceived and hyper-invested lately, being the body modifications an example of that. The theoretical investigations have pointed that the psychic constitution and the corporeal perception are developed at the same time, influencing one another, being the environment a considerable factor for the child s subjective, physical, and psychic development. Which ends up overlapping with how the body is perceived since remote times until the present days, within both individual and social perspectives. The body modifications are a important representation of this phenomenon, once they allow the corporeal malleability to be explored, to the stage of rising reflections about how far can go the limits of the body and the communicative versatility, which is used by the corporeal dimension to symbolically express itself.