Autoagresión corporal entre los jóvenes del occidente de México: psicopatología y cultura

Hernández, María del Carmen Rojas; Cerecer, Gustavo Aviña

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“…It is insensitive for moments and parts, emptied of life becoming depressed and hypersensitive, without vital organicity, no dreams to fulfill, no goodwill to sublimate, no hope to live. In fact, in both depression and anxiety, self-criticism is fierce, as is the loss of social ties and self-inflicted violence-from ripping out hair, cutting the skin leading to suicide-mental conditions, which lead the subject to self-destruction through the way of un-structuring their mental abilities (Rojas Hernández and Cerecer 2009). The dispossessed, with a neurochemistry addiction to methamphetamine and/or heroin, are living in an intense and decadent career of self-inflicted violence, only understandable from the redeeming sense of a masochistic delirium.…”

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The Dispossessed of Necropolitics on the San Diego-Tijuana Border

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2020

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This article presents results of a first-hand investigation that took a year of ethnographic work (methods of observation and interviews) during 2016–2017, with the post-structural theoretical framework of Gilles Deleuze, on the United States–Mexico border, in the San Diego-Tijuana corridor. The Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies of the University of California San Diego, PREVENCASA A. C., and Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosi supported this research. In this research, statistical data, observations, and synthesis of in-depth interviews were utilized about those defined as the ‘dispossessed’: users of hard drugs, and/or in homelessness conditions of discrimination in a highly contrasting border such as that of the United States and Mexico. Among the main results are the relations between mental and embodiment limits, necropolitics and territory, as well as the approach of post-structural political discourses about the body and mind that allow us to understand the subjectivities in question, proposing two types of homelessness.

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The Dispossessed of Necropolitics on the San Diego-Tijuana Border

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“…automutilação na esquizofrenia" (Milagres, 2006) e "Autoagresión corporal entre los jóvenes del occidente de México: psicopatologia y cultural" (Rojas Hernández & Cerecer, 2009). A busca teve também outros resultados não pertinentes ao tema da pesquisa em questão.…”

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Considerações psicanalíticas a respeito da automutilação

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The present work aims to develop a psychoanalytic reading about the contemporary phenomenon of self-mutilation. The question that led to our research was the pursuit to understand the function that cuts and self-inflicted injuries assume in relation with the psychic functioning of the subject. Our initial hypothesis was that the act of self-mutilation as a resource would consist in a defense against the instinctual excess. Freud's theoretical considerations regarding the actual neuroses have indicated the existence of an essential aspect related to the instinctual excess: the insufficiency of the psychic connection, which would be articulated to the level of narcissism. In face of that, we introduce the dimension of alterity in order to understand the process of constitution of the Ego in Freudian theory and the importance of the intersubjectivity in D. Winnicott's theory of maturation. In addition, the fact that self-mutilation has the body itself as its object-and, in most cases, the skin-has indicated the need for a discussion about these elements from the theoretical frame of psychoanalysis. Overall, it was possible to observe that the phenomenon of self-mutilation is articulated to the narcissistic constitution's clinical, arranged by a fragility concerning certain specificities of the relationship between the baby and the primary object. Since André Green's work is essential for this theorization, we use his contributions about the complex of the dead mother and the work of the negative. We have reached the conclusion that self-mutilation assumes a defensive function against the psychic suffering of the subject and, in a radical sense, against psychic death. Furthermore, we believe that the act as a resource also has a communicative dimension, especially in these cases, when it might be a form that was found by the subject to ask for help from the desire of being really seen. Finally, we try to understand the potencial of psychoanalysis face of this phenomenon, given the importance of recognizing the suffering of these subjects. In order to illustrate the theoretical considerations, we also proposed a link with materials from the online social network Tumblr.

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Autoagresión corporal entre los jóvenes del occidente de México: psicopatología y cultura

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The Dispossessed of Necropolitics on the San Diego-Tijuana Border

The Dispossessed of Necropolitics on the San Diego-Tijuana Border

Considerações psicanalíticas a respeito da automutilação

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