study of the problem of psychoanalytic Uthe paper is understanding of the tattoo phenomenon. The first chapter looks at ways of making sense of the tattoo phenomenon, outlining the list of concepts most important in the context of psychoanalytic research: skin eroticism, symbolisation, narcissism, fetishism, sado-masochism and the list of authors to refer to within this study. The paper sets out to: A theoretical analysis of different perspectives on the tattoo phenomenon and a psychoanalytic interpretation of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The paper examines psychoanalytic conceptions of skin as proposed by analysts such as Freud, Zydger, Bion, Winnicott, Beek, Ogden), and identifies key aspects of the tattoo phenomenon, namely the connection to skin eroticism, narcissism, fetishism, sado-masochistic issues and the symbolic dimension. David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is chosen as the empirical part of the study, with its detective intrigue, horror and thriller elements. The film provides an opportunity to examine the theme of tattoos in relation to skin eroticism, traumatic neurosis, the symbolisation process, and narcissistic problematics. The plot of the film shows the protagonist Lisbeth growing up with an abusive father who beat her mother unable to defend herself and share with her daughter the ability to gather her inner contents. Her duality, her cleavage is shown by her Tattoos, images of strong and dangerous animals (wasp, dragon), on the other side a chain that recalls torture. The dragon on her back is a fire-breathing creature trying to burn her torturer father. In the first chapter we assumed that tattoos are not a single phenomenon, but a complex of them. An analysis of the film "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" refuted this idea, as the story of Lisbeth's tattoos interweaves totemic, everyday and violent elements, all within the psyche of a single subject. The paper concludes that tattoo, in terms of psychoanalytic theory and practice, is a complex phenomenon that cannot be reduced to a single concept (such as fetishism) and viewed separately from the individual history of the subject and the history of the collective in which it is inscribed