A maternidade na adolescência como solução diante do desamparo discursivo : reflexões psicanalíticas junto ao documentário “Meninas”

Abstract

Brazil has a high fertility rate among adolescent girls, with particularly high rates among girls from lower-middle and lower classes. In social discourse, pregnant teenagers are often seen as problem figures, considered irresponsible, and their subjectivities reduced to this negative view. In this work, we consider adolescent motherhood as a subjective product-response to the socio-political challenges experienced by these girls and investigate the interconnections of the following factors: adolescence as part of the psychic formation process of the subject, motherhood as a resolution of femininity, and the subjective effects of socio-political suffering. Therefore, our objective was to understand the subjective impacts of adolescent pregnancy, considering the irruption of the reality of puberty and the subjective silencing promoted by some social and political contexts. Based on the stories of four teenage girls portrayed in Sandra Werneck's documentary "Meninas" (Girls), we employ the methodology of Narrative Memoirs as a tool to promote a writing of self that challenges the silencing inherent in discursive helplessness stemming from the discourse of a hegemonic Other. We discuss how the experience of motherhood dialogues with the irruption of a reality upon entering puberty, added to the symbolic helplessness experienced by the girls, so that each narrative unveils a singular writing of self, and how this can correspond to something of the singularity of the feminine non-all. Finally, we highlight how the invitation to narrate their own stories offers the girls a path of resistance against the exclusionary Other, as an invention based on the (re)taking of a place in discourse.