Abstract
This article presents a theoretical-methodological study of the master’s research carried out with eight teenagers in compliance with socio-educational measures in a socio-educational unit of the Federal District. This study privileged the psychoanalytic conception about adolescence in the relation with conduct infractions and the discussion about the necessity of political subjectivation of adolescents. This study aimed to understand the construction of school failure in the life of teenagers in compliance with socio-educational measures. Participants were 16 to 19 years old. The qualitative methodology anchored in psychoanalytical assumptions was used for discussion groups and individual interviews. For the analysis of the material, we used the content analysis of Bardin (2011). The results show that the adolescents had a school history of exclusion and self-exclusion. The discussion highlights the need both for the school and for the socio-educational units to aim at a work of political subjectivation, so that adolescents find, through the collective way, forms of claims outside of criminality.
Teenagers in Conflict with the Law; School Failure; Political Subjectivation; Psychoanalysis