FROM CUT TO LACE: a psychoanalytic study on the sharing of self-harm on social networks
Psychoanalysis; Self-harm; Adolescence; Social Networks; Sharing.
The present study, guided by Lacanian psychoanalysis, addresses the practice of self-harm inflicted by adolescents. It investigates such practices in social networks as a privileged place for addressing discontent in contemporary times. Self-injury consists of making superficial cuts in the skin, without suicidal intent. We aim to identify, through a literature review, which status the act of sharing, by teenager, has in research on self-harm in social networks. Therefore, a theoretical research in psychoanalysis will be carried out on self-harm in adolescence, and the use of social networks by this group. We have as an initial hypothesis that sharing on social networks indicates a subjective resource to make oneself heard and to be inserted in the social discourse.