Abstract

AMARAL, Monica G. T. do. The new critical nihilists and the reversal of public school culture values. Rev. psicol. polít. [online]. 2012, vol.12, n.23, pp. 27-40. ISSN 2175-1390.

This article analyses to what extent youth "extreme cultures" (Canevacci, 2005) may constitute "a field of possibilities" to think over not only some ways of youth protest in the metropolis but also the process itself of deconstruction of teenagers' identity in the contemporary world. We are based upon the idea that the ethnography of the look ['regard' in French] - turned through multi-sensory erotic manifestations in youth - allows the uprising of real proto-theories able to constitute in moments for field rupture, from which emerges a contemporary criticism to the reason established in the school universe. With the experience of an intervention in public school - where the experiences of teachers, students, parents and research psychoanalysts were made compatible -, we intend to infer a research method which is capable to articulate Canevacci's 'eroptica', an ethnography that matches the look and erotic dimension as supported by Bataille and the psycho-analytical methodology according to Herrmann's (1991) conception of field rupture.

Keywords : Youth cultures; Etnography of the look; Field rupture; Eroptica; Analytical acts.

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