Professional choice in the face of adolescent subjectivities: a psychoanalytical view

Abstract

Adolescence is a stage of life in which the subject goes through transition processes that generate changes in his development, which circumscribe in his family environment, and go through the construction of his identity, making choices that will define his future, among them, the choice professional. Thus, Vocational and Professional Guidance (OVP), aims to help young people who are in the process of building their personality, in which they face conflicts and losses. This study proposes to construct clarifying questions about OVP in adolescence, through four cases of care performed through the Extension Project “Adolescence and the question of professional choice: Individual and group care at the Psychological Clinic of UEL”, with based on the psychoanalytic contribution. That said, the relevance of a listening space for coping with this moment of conflict is clear, in which a listening space permeated by the clinical method emerged, in a number of delimited sessions, which through interventions result in evolutionary tasks and integrate with less psychological suffering. When teenagers find themselves facing the future, with a vision of the future and fulfillment, in greater measure with the temporality of external tensions: family, society and culture, the conflicts peculiar to this period are resolved.