Adolescente generalizado? : um estudo sobre a noção de segregação em Jacques Lacan

Abstract

This research investigates the relationship between the notion of segregation in Lacan's teachings and the non-symbolic treatment, by the Western culture, taking from Modernity, of the corporal loss maturation during puberty. We found ourselves in an institutional situation, of a public policy, and we questioned ourselves about the teenagers' articulation impasses with their networks of protection, that is, with the difficulties of social bond that, even though strongly present in young people, were scattered everywhere. We started from an association which Lacan (1967a/2003) made between “the entry of an entire world in the path of segregation” and the inexistence of “grown-ups”, which prompted us to inquire about the transition to adult life, known in our society as adolescence. We have identified that the biological sexual development is, in truth, a time for reaffirming castration, which is felt in the corporal reality, distress and demands care. With the advent of modern science, such care starts to be performed in an imaginary way through the idea of an individual, of a unified body or rather, a segregative practice, which produces segregation phenomena and generalizes the difficulties of bonding. The topic of segregation in Lacan, however, reveals itself in reference not only to the scientific and imaginary progresses, but to the Psychoanalysis of that time, which was configured as a Psychology of the ego. With its ideal of oedipal treatment, psychoanalysis also produced segregation of those who did not conform to it.