The vagrancy of adolescents living on the streets reflects perverse social segregation, characterized by symbolic anomie and social mutilation. In the midst of destitution and helplessness, an adolescent may threaten with a statement like: "I'm gonna show you people. Just watch this." This violence may be presented as the reflex of an organism or be anchored in a discourse that is addressed to the Other, as an effort at inscription. We base our study on clinical and institutional experience (Olinda, PE) and we propose to place, in the radicalness of violence, an attempt to link act and appeal to the Other.
Adolescents living on the street; vagrancy; addressing; act