The listening of teens in school: sexuality as a school symptom

Authors

  • Cristiane de Freitas Cunha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Faculdade de Medicina; Departamento de Pediatria e do Programa de Pós-Graduação
  • Nádia Laguárdia de Lima Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Departamento de Psicologia e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v18i3p508-517

Abstract

This article presents a reflection about a work conducted with adolescents in a private school. The demand of the school emerged at a time when the science teacher comes across with the impossibility of the transmission of the knowledge about the sexed body. Teachers confront with the equivocal of the educational transmission, with the untranslatable impulsive surplus of students, and with their own discomfort and perplexity over this situation. This impasse makes possible a conversation with teenagers at school. The blooming of puberty, the encounter with the other sex, the love, the conflict between generations, the image of the changeable body, generate anxiety and agitation. In conversation with the psychoanalyst, questions and answers emerge, enabling a symptomatization of what appeared to be an opacity in the knowledge and language provocations.

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Published

2013-12-01

How to Cite

Cunha, C. de F., & Lima, N. L. de. (2013). The listening of teens in school: sexuality as a school symptom . Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 18(3), 508-517. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v18i3p508-517