Suicídio, adolescência e contemporaneidade: um olhar psicanalítico

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze suicide attempts among adolescents in their articulations with family dynamics and the contemporary scene. Suicide among adolescents is a serious problem, but often underreported, which makes explicit some aspects of contemporary adolescence, among them, a symbolic precariousness that favors exits through the act. The work, guided by psychoanalytic method and theory, is built around Sara's (17 years old) clinical appointments and sessions with her parents. The act emerged as a guiding concept of the analysis of the case, allowing us to think about the movements that Sara uses in the face of anguish, and that sometimes approach the acting out (when they assume the direction of demand to the other and showing of the object of desire) or the passage to the act (when they seem to point to an attempt to exit the scene and brutal separation from the desire of others). The subjective repercussions of family ties, affections and repetitions that circulate between generations were also perceived. With Sara it was also possible to understand the relationship between lack, symptom and anguish, emphasizing how the breakdown of illusions and the absence of lack leave the subject surrendered, without a network to protect him from the encounter with anguish. Finally, it was necessary to analyze how the empire of images affects the subject always under construction, especially adolescents, who face intense impasses involving their image and their relationship with the other. In this way, the present work highlights the inseparable links between culture, family and subject, with emphasis on the subject enslaved to his image (and, consequently, the gaze of the other) and in which the symbolic dams and operations are weakened. This contemporary scene produces teenagers who are increasingly given to frequent encounters with anguish and without the resources to handle it, tending to exits through the act that often lead to suicide.