Abstract

JUCA, Vládia Jamile dos Santos  and  VORCARO, Ângela Maria Resende. Acts in Adolescence: An Answer in the face of Anguish and Helplessness. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.1, pp. 1-12. ISSN 2359-0769.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v20i1.e9359.

The present article discusses, from two clinical cases, the acting out and the passage to the act as responses to the anguish. The objective is to bring up other possibilities of understanding for the acts inscribed in the trajectories of young women, demonstrating that the construction of cases is an essential tool for the expansion of theoretical reflections, especially when it comes to adolescents. The clinical work reported in the article is the result of an extension and research project developed at a Psychosocial Care Center for Children and Adolescents in Salvador. Adolescents were treated for whom the primordial Other was fickle and presented himself with open ambivalence. Young people marked by intense psychological suffering, built and aggravated by the constant violation of rights, with the aggravation of the fragile assistance of the institutions responsible for social protection and care. As an ethical and theoretical horizon, Lacanian psychoanalysis served as a reference, in dialogue with public policies aimed at childhood and adolescence. Based on the work carried out, it was observed that the adolescents' actions sometimes work as appeals directed to their caregivers to affirm the value of their lives, sometimes as an attempt to inaugurate another story for themselves, even by the repetitions of the acts that launched them, paradoxically, towards the identifications that produce mortification. The management of cases brought important challenges such as sustaining the adolescents' word value, as subjectivities in formation, without explicitly demanding the interruption of the presented behaviors.

Keywords : adolescence; psychoanalysis; acts; helplessness; CAPSi.

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