ADOLESCÊNCIA: SINTOMA E SUBJETIVAÇÃO

Abstract

This work brings to the debate an introductory study on adolescence, the age of the vast majority of high school students. The objective is to analyze the concept of adolescence and the conceptual distinctions of "social symptom" and "subjectivation". The problematic starts from the following question: why does the adolescence phase tend to prolong itself in the young person's life, favoring the formation of a subject with a tendency not to know how to be responsible for his own choices? Methodologically it follows the steps of a basic research whose bibliographic review starts from a conceptual approach in the work “Emílio ou Da Educação” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1995) dialoguing with some genealogical aspects in Michel Foucault (2011; 2014). The theoretical framework supports the notions of "adolescence", "social symptom" and "subjectivation". In this sense, the reflection on adolescence permeates the history of Western societies and the way in which scholars define the phenomenon of adolescence. Thus, using Michel Foucault's notions of “knowledge of oneself” and “care for oneself”, it is possible to understand adolescence as a possibility of being a new subject, reworked by oneself, that is thought and done, undone if and is remade, even in the face of so many social subjections that our time imposes on them. The knowledge of oneself, articulated to the care of oneself, enables the government of oneself and of others, establishing, then, social ties and references to cultural ideals.

Keywords: Adolescence. Subject. Subjectivation