Yara Amorim Viana de Castro’s research while affiliated with Federal University of Uberlândia and other places

This article intends to discuss the specificities of adolescence, especially the issues that touch the body as a way of expression. The psychoanalytic clinic with adolescents has pointed out the contemporary forms of suffering and subjectivation, with the body becoming a crucial condition for the expression of the current malaise. In the face of the Other of adolescence, which is shown to be insufficient, unlike the Other that the child had as consistent, the teenager is faced with the Real. From this encounter, the teenager is faced with feelings of anguish and the nameless, making the condition of existence fragile. Linked to the physiological changes resulting from puberty, causing a pulsional excess that invades and takes them out of their speech, the adolescent finds in the body a favorable and unique field of inscription. This body of helplessness starts to be used as a means of expression and possible translation in the composition of the social bond. The psychoanalytic clinic, in view of the above, thinks about spaces for this body, with a view to saying that it is possible in the discursive construction.