BARCELOS, T. F. A História da menina-morta: (des)esperança de adolescentes em situação de precariedade social [The History of the Dead-Girl: Hope(less) teens in a situation of precariousness]. 130 p. Master’s Dissertation – Instituto de Psicologia USP. São Paulo (SP), 2014.
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Abstract: We aim, in this research, to psychoanalytically investigate the emotional experience of adolescents that, from pronounced social precariousness, face death situations of peers with whom they live closely. From a network of institutional contacts, derived from previous research conducted in the last five years, we obtained information about the occurrence of an accident that killed a teenager. We contacted the non-governmental organization dedicated to the care of adolescents in slums, where the victim attended group activities. We organized this research by methodologically distinguishing and investigating procedures of configuration, registration and interpretation of inter-human occurrence. We configure two different types of meeting participants: institutional visits and press conferences structured around the use of Thematic-Drawing-and-Story Procedure. Then, by elaborating later transference narratives, which considered together with drawings and story, allowed the production of four comprehensive fields of affective-emotional sense or unconscious relative: “Who will be the nest”, “Stuck in place”, “More of the same” and “By our peril”. Finishing work, we established reflective dialogues that lead us to consider that this reinforces belief in the impossibility of a favorable and hopeful future. The overall picture demands a vehement affirmative action favoring the formation of family and social environments that can sustain personal growth according to an ethic of respect for human life.