Abstract

GOMES, Ágatha Aila Amábili de Meneses  and  TEIXEIRA, Selena Mesquita de Oliveira. The experience of boredom in young adults: an analysis of contemporary modes of subjectivation. Gerais, Rev. Interinst. Psicol. [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.2, pp.263-281. ISSN 1983-8220.  https://doi.org/10.36298/gerais2019120206.

This study aimed to analyze contemporary modes of subjectivation and their relation to the boredom experienced by young people. This is a qualitative research, which carried out semi-structured interviews and the Word Association Test with 15 undergraduate students. The results were analyzed with the support of the software Iramuteq and content analysis, in which one can perceive an urgency for the time to pass faster, being the free time interpreted as something tedious and synonymous of uselessness. In the experience of this time, young people seek to fill it, in an attempt to escape from the possible thoughts arising from that time, however, such fillings lack a greater significance. The main alternative used to occupy this time is the use of technological resources, especially the cell phone, however, its exacerbated use brings repercussions to the ways of being of these young people and their relationship with the other. Boredom arises, thus, not as an individual symptom, but as a socio-psychological symptom, which denounces a postmodern way of being. When looking at the contemporary youth, it is understood that Psychology must be aware of the context in which these subjectivities are constituted and of the possible psychic suffering arising from this new time.

Keywords : Contemporaneity; Boredom; Undergraduates.

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