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Tempo psicanalitico

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SANTOS, Manoel Antônio dos  y  PRATTA, Elisângela Maria Machado. Adolescence and drug use through the lens of psychoanalysis: suffering and ecstasy in the passage. Tempo psicanal. [online]. 2012, vol.44, n.1, pp. 167-182. ISSN 0101-4838.

The purpose of this study is to reflect upon the psychological factors of adolescent drug addiction according to a psychoanalytic perspective. First we consider adolescence as a social-historical category and then we discuss the psychoanalytic understanding of the adolescent transition. This theoretical path builds the approach that considers drug use as a phenomenon that serves as a passage ritual to contemporary adolescence. This phenomenon is modulated by the drive organization, which determines how the individual will take ownership of the use of psychoactive substances. We conclude that the substance use may function as a buffer-object, activated to deal with the structural fragility of the contemporary affective bonds.

Palabras clave : adolescence; psychopathology; drug abuse; psychoanalysis.

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