O declínio do nome do pai e a violência empregada pelo adolescente em conflito com a lei.

Abstract

The present paper has for objective to discuss and to analyze urban violence committed by adolescents in conflict with the law through two theoretical bases: Lacanian Psychoanalysis with its notion of paternal function capable of limiting the pleasure, enabling the formation of social bonds in the interior of the culture, and the Saussurean Linguistics with its theory of the linguistic sign and its syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. The violence here is portrayed as an excess of the pleasure, by the foreclosure of the Name of the Father, breaks with the symbolic and appears as a symptom of the subject that can not metaphor into a social environment. Making relationship between these theories and identify the urban violence committed by teens as a result of declining paternal symbolic sources.