Social Bond and Adolescence: The Father and the Infraction

Abstract

In research funded by FAPEMIG and PROPPG/UFMG, we analyze excerpts from the discourse of young traffickers, collected in psychoanalytical conversations in Belo Horizonte (Brazil). At them, the figure of father appears associate to the violence, negligence and abandonment. As a consequence, the young people create relationship based on suspicion and imposture in face of the law. They subvert the law and believe in the countenance offered by crime. In this way, they invent a new order to their existences, whose vector is the death. Then they are led by a new quaternary logic: to the “Disappearance” of the Father in the Culture (political dimension), they answer with de “War”, as well as to the “abandonment” of the father (oedipal dimension), they answer with the “little war”. Diacritical terms that translate a new form of regulation which results are alarming national rates of mortality of young people.