Inimigo íntimo: um estudo sobre a segregação e a violência nas fronteiras entre a política e a psicanálise

Abstract

The present work is the result of a research that had, as its main objective, to investigate the use of violence as one of the responses employed by Brazilian adolescents and youth to the problems set in place by the contemporary segregation, in an attempt to ascertain possiblerelations between segregation, violence, adolescence and youth. The everyday violence and the overall context of violent criminality that lead to the death of black, poor, male adolescents, residents of slums and the suburbs of large Brazilian cities were also considered in relation to the social exclusion situations. Furthermore, a theoretical review of thekeywords segregation, violence, puberty, adolescence and youth was also carried out, comprehending classic and contemporary authors who work with the respective terms, identifying how these are defined and articulated to the current psychoanalytic, social, philosophical and political thought. Additionally, an attempt to extract, from the analyzeddata, the key points that allow for the association between adolescence, youth, aggressiveness, violence, death and segregation was made, considering the incidence of the scientific and capitalist discourses upon the contemporary subjectivity. Utilizing the psychoanalytic research methodology, a case study was developed and the data analysis was made based on its literal transcription, making use of the psychoanalytical method of transliteration. Assuming the singularity of the case, without yielding to generalizations, we tried to identify how segregation structures and articulates itself between the subjective and political aspects