Abstract

MAUER, Susana Kuras. Tornar-se adolescente: o corpo como cenário. Desidades [online]. 2019, n.22, pp. 33-41. ISSN 2318-9282.

I set forth to make a few considerations, which emerge from psychoanalytic clinical practice, on how physical contact occurs and how adolescents experience sexuality. How do they bond? How do they expose themselves? How do they somatize? Today’s mirrors are, above all, the representations circulating through social media. Conquering visibility and exposing oneself in order to be validated by the gaze of others is a contemporary condition of existence. Bodies that are produced, manipulated, exhibited, and seek recognition are some of the imperatives prevalent since puberty. I suggest a new hypothesis: the adolescent body has, perhaps, lately incarnated this uprooting as a product of a rupture in the social community. The feeling of lack of collective meaning could have precipitated the fetishism of the body that impacts us and worries teenagers so much of the time. Still, paradoxically, the awakening of the female struggle against gender violence has been summoning the attention and committed participation of teens.

Keywords : adolescence; self-cutting syndrome; anorexia; self-harm; adolescent sexuality.

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