O silêncio das imagens ruidosas e o real na adolescência : encontros de uma flânerie

Abstract

This research investigates the current conditions of the crossing adolescence that favor the behavior of young people who inflict superficial cuts on their own skin and post images of these incisions on social media platforms on the internet. To carry it out, the following methodological resources were used: an exploratory research on Tumblr, a platform that contains images produced by young people who cut themselves, through a flânerie rehearsal; an interview with a user of the platform, via chat; an interview with a former user of the platform, via videoconference; and a theoretical survey on the topic. For data analysis, psychoanalytic theory was used, in dialogue with authors from anthropology, communication and philosophy. For psychoanalysis, adolescence is a symptomatic response to the encounter with the real in the logical time of the puberty. Currently, this response is pervaded by the effects of the unveiling of the inconsistency of the Other and the impoverishment of the experience, causing difficulties for adolescents to situate themselves in a body. It is considered that the approximation of object a, precipitated by the encounter with the real of the puberty, causes the emergence of the anguish. The symbolic fragility to deal with the real that emerges in the body causes some adolescents to cut themselves, trying to make a body out of the flesh, seeking an appeasement for their uncanny experience. In addition, these adolescents start to resort to images, seeking to sew them to their bodies, weaving an edge in the real. These images receive an aesthetic treatment and a melancholic style that lend them symbolic contours, provoking a feeling of belonging, when they are shared and liked by the groups. It is concluded that the difficulty of inhabiting a body in times of the unveiling the inconsistency of the Other leads certain subjects not only to inflict cuts on their own skin, but also to make use of the images of these incisions as an attempt to appropriate their bodies.