A case of terror. Part II

Body, horror, adolescence and institutions

Abstract

Using the link between psychoanalysis and literature, we will use a story by the author Mariana Enríquez, titled End of Course to think about issues related to current subjectivity embodied in adolescence that passes through institutions. This time again we will not fall into the temptation of naming the current panorama of the times as social reality. We will resituate the (possible and impossible) interventions – readings – of workers with adolescence, especially those who are willing to place themselves in the impossible place of the  analyst. In dialogue with literature we will interrogate, from the story and from its characters, the place of the adolescent in relation to the Other. The strange and the horror will pass  through us from the story and beyond, from the characters and beyond them. The possible desiring positionings, the place of the act, the interventions, the intensity of the gaze and  its point of schiness, the contagion, the body, the violence, will be some of our concerns. Our work is part of the Research Projects PI V121 and PI V123 (UNCo-CURZA)