Abstract
This study contributes with weaving an analysis of the social relations and the political forms in the light of psychoanalysis and proposes reflections on the helplessness and subjectivity modalities of adolescents at risk of involvement with crime. The study was developed from the clinical listening of adolescents in a socio-educational measure and aimed to investigate the insertion in the social bond via the infraction. To that end, the expressions produced by the adolescents were recovered and analyzed from three dimensions: helplessness, pact with the group, and violence. In conclusion, the modalities of subjection and social exclusion, in the colonized cultural contexts, produce significant effects on the subjectivity of adolescents, with the crime being a possible solution to helplessness, as well as an insertion in the social bond, and an identification modality.
Keywords:
adolescence; offense; identification; socio-educational measure; psychoanalysis