Psychoanalytic reflections on the bonds between adolescents

bullying and cyberbullying as current symptoms

Abstract

This writing arises within the framework of Research Project V 121 called “Adolescence on the edges of today. Psychoanalysis, institution and pandemic” directed by B.C. and Prof. Marina La Vecchia and co-directed by Dr. Gabriel Pavelka, belonging to the National University of Comahue (CURZA). In this work we will share a series of questions based on clippings of professional practices that invite us to reflect on the current ties between peers and their effects on subjects and institutions. Along these lines we will address and question some symptoms of the time that have been called bullying and cyberbullying. Among the questions that have driven this writing we could mention: How does the current era impact ties? What reading can we make of the hostility and/or aggressiveness observed among children and adolescents? What does the term bullying imply? What does psychoanalysis transmit to us and what does it contribute to the identified symptoms? To conclude, we propose to propose some coordinates that make it possible to think about interventions that, based on the power of the word, provoke the collective soul to appease and produce group spaces, places in which differences are accommodated and respected.