ADOLESCENCE AND PSYCHOANALYTICAL LISTENING

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the contemporary adolescent, as well as his discomforts, questions, searches, meetings and disagreements. In this sense, the present study intends to investigate, reflect and contribute, based on psychoanalytic listening, about the characteristics and particularities of this adolescent in face of the challenges and changes in his physical, emotional, intellectual and social development, that cause changes in his behavior, understood by family and society. This adolescent human being is in the process of formation and psychic maturity and is constantly bombarded by the media, with its appealing powers, often causing inversions of values, insecurities and fears, mainly for the dictatorship of beauty, generating anguish, dissatisfaction and unhappiness, for not if considered within this standard. It is necessary for the psychoanalyst to know the distressing factors of this adolescent who is on his couch bringing his demand, presenting physical and emotional symptoms to help him face this phase in the best possible way. It is fundamental that the analyst listen to the adolescent with affection and attention and lead him to a life less stressful, with more mental health. Listening plays a very important place in psychoanalysis because it analyzes spoken and silenced words, words that cause restlessness, discomfort, fear, insecurity, but when they are said, they open access to signification.