A TENTATIVA DE SUICÍDIO NA ADOLESCÊNCIA: um olhar psicanalítico

Abstract

The suicide attempt evidences the non-consummation of the act of taking one's own life, giving the attempt and the suicide a different symptomatic place. The objective of this study was to discuss suicide attempt in adolescents in contemporary times and its direct relationship with culture, through psychoanalysis. The exploratory bibliographic research was conducted in the SciELO, Google Scholar and PePSIC-BVS platforms, and five articles dated 2017-2021 were selected, as well as books contained in the literature and data available on Brazilian government websites and primers. The descriptors used for the search were: Adolescent, Suicide, and Psychoanalysis. The content analysis carried out was based on the psychoanalytic context as a theoretical and methodological reference, besides the understanding of the social impacts generated by the theme. The sociocultural influence directly interferes in the suicide theme, due to the taboo of talking about death and suicide as a symptom of a social illness and the difficulties of listening spaces for adolescents and public policies for adolescent care. Finally, it is necessary to understand and articulate actions, within the scope of public policies, as well as psychoanalytic clinics, which are willing to act and respond to the social and cultural realities involving suicide attempts and completed suicides - a broad understanding of the realities experienced and the integrality (biopsychosocial, cultural, and spiritual) of the subjects.