BETWEEN SUFFERING AND PLEASURE: WORK EXPERIENCES OF SUICIDAL CRISIS INTERVENTION

ABSTRACT

Labor psychodynamics considers that work can be source of pleasure and suffering, varying according to its nature impositions. This way, the object is to comprehend, in light of Labor Psychodynamics, the experiences of pleasure and suffering of workers in an organization due to the attending of occurrences involving suicidal crisis. In order to accomplish this, 15 (fifteen) workers that attended occurrences of this nature in a labor organization located in Southeast Brazil were interviewed. These workers deal with the impositions of suicidal crisis complexity, while they search to experience pleasure in spaces allowing their expression by the use of their intelligibility and in the premise of recognition. The experiences of suffering and pleasure were comprehended in a fine line constantly transposed and limited by the victim’s characteristics and behavior in conflict in opposition to the search of workers in demonstrating towards labor impositions.

Labor Psychodynamics; Suicide; Suffering; Pleasure; Attending of occurrences