To write on things: the contemporary utopia on adolescents language

Authors

  • Fernanda Costa-Moura Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Instituto de Psicologia
  • Anna Carolina Lo Bianco Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Instituto de Psicologia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v14i27p92-111

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, adolescent, language, science, contemporaneity

Abstract

The article deals with the practice of graffiti on streets, to examine the rules of these writings and refer them to the subversion of the ordinary language they operate. It is based on Walter Benjamin´s analysis of the language transformations that are on the base of modern social order. It argues that if science on the one hand reduces language to the point of turning it algorithmic, emptying its expressive potency, on the other hand, the youngsters these days rejoin the creative power of language. They exhibit on the city walls the incommensurability between what is shown on words and what can be read.

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Published

2009-12-01

Issue

Section

Dossier: Adolescence between Psychoanalysis and Education

How to Cite

Costa-Moura, F., & Carolina Lo Bianco, A. (2009). To write on things: the contemporary utopia on adolescents language. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 14(27), 92-111. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v14i27p92-111