Adolescência e drogadição : tessituras singulares a partir do histórico-vivencial

Abstract

Adolescence is a field of interest involving various areas of study and knowledge. From the perspective of psychoanalysis, there are increasing demands that contempory society has changed the adolescent process, eventually increasing the inner psychic intensities to this point in life. In order to make the passage from childhood, adolescence requires important psychic work to handle the physical and psychological changes which occur, causing shock to the narcissistic side of the subject. Hence, it is understood that the passage from adolescence involves both a transforming potential and the possibility of triggering intense suffering. The interconnection between the very excesses of culture (excesses that occur in the intersubjective field) to the psychic demands related to issues and intra-psychic intensities is often noted by the presence of excesses that can not be managed, thereby generating harmful effects to adolescents experiencing the crossing of this step. As an example of these impasses, are the teens with drug addiction, as it is observed today. In this sense this thesis, called Adolescence and drug addiction: natural weavings from the historical and experiential consists of two sections on the theme of adolescence: a theoretical and empirical. The theoretical section proposes a questioning regarding the interconnection between intersubjective and intrapsychic intensities that can cause damage to the adolescent. In order to address aspects regarding this traumatic condition, it resorts to psychoanalytic and sociological contributions to address the association between culture, society and adolescence. From the empirical section, with the qualitative method, resulted in material from interviews with three adolescent subjects who were in treatment for drug abuse. This material was analyzed from Bardin's content analysis technique (1979), establishing four a priori categories: significant experiences in the life history of adolescents; The search for the object drug as featured in psychic pain; Motivations and challenges in the search for treatment; and future projects possibilities? Challenges facing drug addicts. It was possible to access and explore the conditions present in the life history of these teens that lead to affirm the importance of giving priority to listening and understanding the elements that lead to seeking and using drugs for the adolescent. Psychoanalysis, by providing the subject an insight into the uniqueness of their history and experience, enables reflection to build pathways to expand the possibilities for understanding and intervening before the manifestations of psychic pain.