Abstract

FREITAS, Lêda Gonçalves de  and  FACAS, Emílio Peres. Experiences pleasure-suffering in the context of teachers' work. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.1, pp. 7-26. ISSN 1808-4281.

This article presents the result of a research on the experiences of pleasure-suffering at work and its relation with the work context of teachers of a public school located in Paranoá, Federal District. The study investigated the work context these teachers in dimensions: Organization of Work (TOS), Working Conditions (CT) and relations Socio-Professional (RSP). THE psychodynamics of work was the theoretical approach used to justify the study. Open and semi-structured group interviews were conducted with four groups of teachers and submitted to content analysis, based on the criteria of recurrent themes. The results indicated that the teachers experience pleasure and suffering at work, and the suffering more than this. The teachers face, consciously, suffering by means of defensive strategies and subjective mobilization, on the one hand, have mobilized and transformed aspects of work, but, on the other, have not change the context of work.

Keywords : Pleasure-suffering; Defensive strategies; Subjective mobilization.

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