Adolescentes e o uso sintomático de tecnologias digitais: O lugar da palavra / Adolescents and the symptomatic use of digital technologies: The place of the word

Abstract

The article is the result of research carried out with groups of adolescents in which the offer of listening through the psychoanalytic conversation methodology opens space for the resumption of the word's place. Through this collectivized free association, young people can question themselves about the different symptomatic modes assumed by the malaise caused by excesses in the use of technologies, especially in the face of an imaginary increasingly inflated by the present digital culture. For psychoanalysis, adolescence can be understood as a symptomatic response to pubertal bodily changes and the consequent encounter of the subject with the real of sex. In this sense, it consists of a logical time of intense work and of formulating a response to not knowing about these phenomena. Hence responses that are marked by excess, resulting from this impasse to be resolved one by one. The work brings some reflections on a conversation process carried out with a group of adolescents in which excess was pointed out as a striking feature by the young people themselves. Thus, it was through the word that allowed to deal with the real symbolic way that it was possible for young people to find a certain order for jouissance, since the imaginary way is insufficient to account for such excesses.