AIELLO-VAISBERG, T. M. J.; TACHIBANA, M.; PONTES, M. L. S.; BARCELOS, T. F. Sexual life disaster: the collective imaginary of adolescents regarding teenage pregnancy. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research in Psychoanalysis and Phenomenology: Qualitative Research in Mental Health – Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Perspectives, Campinas: Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, 2008.
Abstract: Aligned with intersubjective psychoanalysis, we understand that social phenomena, including the process of adolescence, should be investigated within the context in which they are embedded. Thus, we decided to investigate the collective imaginary of one hundred and ninety-seven young people regarding adolescence in contemporary times. To this end, we contacted students from the eighth grade to the third year of high school and asked them to individually create the Drawing-and-Story Procedure based on the theme “an adolescent today”. For this study, we selected thirteen drawing and stories that explicitly mentioned teenage pregnancy. From this material, we identified four fields of meaning: “Fatality”, “Death”, “Transgression”, and “Abandonment”. Thus, we understood that, in the collective imaginary of youth, pregnancy is seen as an inevitable outcome of sexual life, with the pregnant adolescent viewed as a transgressor, abandoned, and without future prospects.