Entre cortes e laços: a angústia presentificada no corpo e o sujeito adolescente

Abstract

The present research intends to demonstrate the contribution of Psychoanalysis to the work developed in a Psychosocial Care Center for Children and Adolescents, in view of the growing number of cases of adolescents, mostly female, who, taken by intense anguish, cut their own bodies. In contemporary times, we see anguish being treated as an evil to be fought - as soon as possible - and this is reflected in social bonds, which often come to resemble commercial transactions, where a product must be replaced as soon as it presents defects. The period of adolescence involves multiple transformations, mourning and resignifications, which the subject will go through in the relationships with himself, with his family nucleus and in the culture where he is inserted. In our work, we intend, through fragments of cases, to raise what these adolescents teach us with their symptoms, their constructions and, mainly, how much they invite services aimed at serving children and adolescents to review their practices and reinvent themselves.