Abstract
This paper analyzes empirical data collected during focus groups with teenagers about the meanings they give to the idea and the experience of freedom in their lives. This analysis was developed based on a critique of the free individual conception of Liberal Theory, and of the childhood and youth as developmental stages of the individual in order to reach independency in an individual level, according to Developmental Psychology. These issues were problematized considering the discussions that took place during the focus groups among the subjects.
Keywords:
freedom; young adults; autonomy