Corpos marcados: desamparo e angústia na clínica psicanalítica com adolescentes

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Muriel Romeiro da Costa e
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/0013000009n57
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9571
• topic: Adolescência; Escarificação; Desamparo; Narrativas de vida; Angústia; Adolescence; Scarification; Helplessness; Life stories; Anguish; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

This dissertation originates itself from a restlessness caused by clinical experience with adolescents that practice scarification. Nowadays, teenagers marked by contemporary culture present fragility and lack of stable affective bonds, impoverishment of life experiences, greater sensibility to frustrations, difficulties to talk about themselves and seem to have lost the meaning of life. Their complaints are malaise, emptiness and unbearable inner pain. They do not know where it hurts and do not realize how little they can speak about what bothers them. Thus, they resort to cut their own bodies as a way of relieving the tension that causes suffering. This work had as general objective to understand the meaning of scarification during adolescence based on life narratives of two adolescents treated in a Psychosocial Attention Centre for Children (Children’s CAPS) in Anápolis. To comprehend the narratives of these teenagers that cut themselves, we used Freud's conceptions (1905/1926/1927/1930) regarding puberty, anguish and helplessness. In addition to that, we recurred to other contemporary authors of psychoanalysis to reflect on adolescence and scarification as a means of understanding the relationship between teenagers and their bodies. Life narratives were used as method to collect the adolescents’ fragments of life stories. We used drawing and writing as complementary techniques in order to obtain psychic indications that contributed to understand the scarification act. This research allowed us to conclude that scarification might be related to a feeling of helplessness revived during adolescence which manifests itself as great inner pain, and the cuts appear as a relief to the excess of tension.