Adolescencia : modern idade?
AUTOR(ES)
Fabio Luiz Lopes da Silva
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2000
RESUMO
Entranced or intrigued, we find ourselves, in either of these two cases, on the very borderlines of a zone marked by total silence, whenever we are asked to contemplate the phenomenon of adolescence. This thesis is an attempt to talk about this silence; it identifies in adolescence a moment of truth where modernity achieves self-recognition and seeks to legitimate itself but where it also, as it were, loses itself. What is at issue is an attempt to propose a certain definition of adolescence and also a certain definition of modemity, both of them psychoanalytically inspired. Given these two definitions, it is argued that adolescence must henceforth be viewed as a fact, a caricature and a symptom of modernity. Moreover, an attempt is made to describe certain media-originated motions which are characterised as imaginary "stitches". These hold together the lashes which adolescence brings to modemity as caricature and symptom. Finally, the example of adolescence is used to participate in the debate of modernity and post-modernity. Could it be, then, that post-modernity is the limit, a symptom of modernity, or, rather, a metaphor for it?
ASSUNTO(S)
modernidade adolescencia psicanalise
