Resumen

SILVEIRA, Fernando da  y  PINEL, Jean-Pierre. Brazilian adolescents in conflict with the law. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2019, vol.53, n.1, pp. 245-258. ISSN 0486-641X.

Contrary to a much touted image of harmonious integration, poor young Brazilians born to populations descended from slaves deported from Africa are often exposed to extreme social violence. Murder and suicide are the tragic fate of tens of thousands of adolescents every year. The purpose of this article is to characterize this social violence and analyze its sources. A close intertwining of social stratification and discrimination has been observed, overturning both symbolic Law and social laws. This intertwining is strongly reinforced in institutions supposed to embrace, protect, and guide these adolescents, such that institutions reproduce a denial of symbolic Law and violate social laws, acting in practice as powerful transgressors of fundamental prohibitions. A prevailing law of the strongest, claimed by both professionals and adolescents, delineates an institutional framework operating under the primacy of the phallic, marked by a stance of rigidity and legitimization of violence, associated with power wielded by tyrannical figures and authorities.

Palabras clave : adolescent in conflict with the law; institution; symbolic law; murder; racism; violence.

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