Expressões do desamparo na escola: vulnerabilidades sociais e impactos na adolescência / Expressions of helplessness at school: social vulnerabilities and impacts on adolescence

Abstract

The article derives from an ongoing research that aims to understand how the conditions of social vulnerability in which many young Brazilians find themselves are articulated to helplessness as a psychic effect and, more specifically, how the relationship with the school takes part in the impasses of adolescence in the social bond. At the interface between psychoanalysis and education, we will work with the material raised from the realization of workshops with classes from the 9th grade of elementary school to the 3rd year of high school in two public schools in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The adolescents used the space of the workshop to express their helplessness, either by silence, by confrontation or by their expression in words in the secrets shared in the workshops, which were grouped as follows: helplessness in relation to the material conditions of the school; helplessness for not feeling welcomed by the school;helplessness in the relationship with their peers; expressions of helplessness as discouragement.