Lógicas do contato, afetos sem lógica? Reflexões sobre os processos de subjetivação de crianças no pós-pandemia

Abstract

This thesis aims to investigate the processes of subjectivation of children in the post-pandemic context, based on an intervention-research conducted in a public school in Rio de Janeiro, considering the political and sanitary dimensions that preceded and followed during the writing of this work. The work is divided into four chapters: in the introduction, I show the movement of the research and how the issues have changed due to the impact of the covid-19 pandemic. In chapter 1, supported by the field of critical childhood studies, I discuss some discursive captures and the mobilization of childhood in neoconservative times. In chapter 2, I discuss the processes of subjectivation and their relationship with neoliberalism and childhood, showing how neoliberal rationality fractures the common and favors phenomena of dispersion rather than cohesion. In chapter 3, I present the intervention-research carried out, contextualizing it before presenting what the day-to-day with the children was like. In chapter 4, I present the discussion and the analytical axes drawn from the fieldwork. Through three axes, I discuss the issue of aggressiveness, which stood out as a relational highlight, from a psychoanalytic theory perspective. I use affect theory and queer studies to think about how affects and emotions stitch the work together, producing orientations, disorientations, and relationships in the school space. I engage with the film Close to reflect on the boundaries and the melancholic dimension of gender that regulate the affective expressions among the children. The thesis concludes by betting on the function of the workshop-object as a useful tool to think about new forms of interaction and belonging, challenging neoliberal logic.