Adormecimento psíquico e despertar do inconsciente : a conversação com adolescentes na cultura digital

Abstract

The subject of this thesis stems from our experience with adolescents in schools using a methodology we called active conversation. We realized that the digital revolution brought and continues to bring profound subjective impacts, especially affecting teenagers seeking to separate from their parents and to insert themselves into a broader social universe. Educators have demanded the intervention of psychologists to address the impasses in the social bond that takes place in schools. Based on Lacan’s Theory of the Discourses, we developed the hypothesis that the assemblage between the capitalist discourse and digitalization promotes a change in the status of knowledge, with an impact on the social bond. In this sense, we relied on the Conversation methodology as a device capable of favouring the social bond. We tried to understand the functioning of this device, highlighting its operative elements and clarifying its dynamics. We extracted elements for the understanding of the Conversation as a device from an articulation with the Theory of the Discourses and from approximations between the eighteenth-century French Salons – which we took as vestiges of a practice – and the psychoanalytically orientated conversation. Having as reference the notion of extimacy in Lacanian theory, we concluded that, by introducing the function of extimacy as operative, conversation can promote the treatment of alterity that manifests itself in the body and in the other, provoking the awakening of the Unconscious – so asleep nowadays – and the construction of a (not-all) knowledge specific to each one, enhancing the social bond.