THANATOS: tentativas de suicídio da juventude negra da rede de ensino público em Guapimirim

Abstract

This work that we present is the result of research in progress in the municipality of Guapimirim in the state of Rio de Janeiro, which emerged from the experience of a black psychologist, with racial awareness and the context of life of the black Brazilian population, working in the Saúde na Escola Program, where he found several suicide attempts. In the search to understand the complex social phenomenon present there, as well as the prevalence, which pointed to a cut of race, gender and social class. We used as a methodology of round of conversations, in accordance with MELO et. al (2016), given its qualitative nature in the analysis process, which dialogues with Akotirene (2020) regarding intersectionality. During the period in which we offered care and actions aimed at preventing the recurrence of suicide attempts. When confronting suicide, we established therapeutic activity, in which it was possible to collect data and develop this work. Our work was also heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which prevented face-to-face conversations from taking place, as there was no vaccine on the horizon. Even then, we are guided by the rules of the World Health Organization, which among the measures to contain the advance of the pandemic, established that, agglomeration of people in closed places would not be allowed. We used as theoretical methodological support Freud (1905), (1930 [1929]), (1929) and (1919). We establish the dialogue of this author, with authors who study the suffering of black people. They are: Sousa (1983), Nogueira (1998), Bento (2014), Botega (2015), Bertolote (2012), Dunker (2015). We established as a general objective of the research to problematize the suicide attempts of black youth in the municipality of Guapimirim, a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. As a specific objective the history of the municipality, to understand the suffering of the black population in the psychoanalytic perspective considering the interfaces with suicide. At the end of our work, we present a case study, which dialogues with the issues raised in the previous chapters. We established as a justification of our work the research in public school considering it as a space, in which it is possible to visualize a social extract of the local population, constitutes a space for the students' development. The health policy, as well as the PSE - Programa Saúde na Escola (Health at School Program), has the potential to articulate and promote policies that can point towards the promotion of students health.