Abstract
In recent years, there has been an increasing discussion on the presence of Psychoanalysis in locations out of its traditional setting, such as public services and institutions. In order to make some considerations about working at a public institution serving children and adolescents in different school shifts, this study brings some considerations which might represent intervention possibilities from the Psychoanalytic Clinic Listening, in a dialogue between theory and institutional context. After observation, we were able to conclude that an institution can represent a space for people to be recognized in different social ways in order to help them to act as subjects/citizens. This analysis aimed to contribute with children and adolescents who bring marks of exclusion and violence in their body and psyche, to change their stories by being at an institution and to recognize themselves as subjects, from other signifiers.
Psychoanalysis; Public Institutions; Children; Teenagers