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PINHEIRO, Isadora Loyola  e  PEREIRA, Camila Claudiano Quina. Suicide as a social symptom: a study on the impacts of capitalism on subjectivities. Rev. Polis Psique [online]. 2023, vol.13, n.2, pp.76-96.  Epub 25-Out-2024. ISSN 2238-152X.  https://doi.org/10.22456/2238-152x.124065.

Suicide is a multifactorial phenomenon, considered a serious public health problem that affects, on average, about 700 thousand people per year. Therefore, this article aims to analyze the phenomenon of suicide and its relationship with capitalism, based on the social determination of the health and the individualistic scenario of this model of society that can be the cause of self-mutilation. With that, a bibliographical research was carried out that evidenced the precariousness of life in the Brazilian reality and the social suffering that surrounds the marginalized population, mediated by the inequalities of the capitalist system, including unemployment, precariousness of employment, racism, sexism, LGBTphobia and poverty as some of the elements involved in suicide. It was found important to consider the social, political, economic, historical and cultural intersections in the debate on voluntary death and in the promotion and appreciation of life, in opposition to an individualistic and reductionist view of the phenomenon.

Palavras-chave : Suicide; Capitalism; Subjectivities; Social Psychology.

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