FRANCO, E. M. Uma casa sem regras: representações sociais da FEBEM entre seus trabalhadores [A house with no rules: social representations of FEBEM between its workers]. Doctoral Thesis – USP. São Paulo (SP), 2008.
Available on: doi: <10.11606/T.47.2008.tde-06062008-170921>
The Foundation CASA SP, former FEBEM, has gained prominence in the media due to the recurrent episodes of violence in its units of internment. But, it has been a while object of study for several researchers. It seems that the majority of the research has just focused on the adolescent in conflict with the law, rarely knowing about the involved workers. The objective of this work consisted on the studying of the social representations of this foundation between its workers from the psychoanalytic perspective on the group processes. It is especially based on René Kaës’ formulations. We employed the Thematic Drawing-and-Story Procedure with a subject as a dialogue resource, the focus of our analysis was the speech produced during the interaction with these workers and not their graphical production. The results disclose that these citizens live strongly psychic suffering, which we believe result from failures in the functions of the intermediary. These workers, tangled in frames of institutional violence, suffer due to the difficulty of producing meanings about their daily lives, because it seems to occur a failure in the values transmission that serve to produce representations to maintain balanced mental functioning. The institution does not fulfill its primary task of providing security to its members. The output for the suffering has been or the logic virility or the violence bond. This foundation is represented as a house with no rules, in it all are left to their own luck, apply it the law of strongest one. The contact with the subjects of the research discloses the urgency of intervention proposals that can propitiate the production of meanings and the stereotypes overcoming, which can reduce the suffering and promote the participation of the workers in the processes of transformation of this institution.