Abstract
This study aims to discuss possible incidences and vicissitudes of trauma, considering the COVID-19 pandemic, from the narratives of adolescents participating in the Young Apprentice Project, in a psychoanalytical research-intervention, with 26 adolescents separated into two groups, interviewed in four meetings. The narratives highlighted a shortening of experiences, a flattening of psychic time, and difficulties in elaboration, culminating in feelings of paralysis and inhibition, difficulty in projecting the future and making up the adolescent experience. The meetings were taken, by the adolescents, as a speech potentiating measure, since it engendered an offer of listening, with possibilities of producing symbolic outlets from the immobilizing experience of trauma. We took the writing of Anne Frank’s Diary as inspiration to think about the speech engendered by the listening function and the desire regarding the analytical act. We consider it essential, while working with adolescents, to produce opening windows and spaces of discussion engendered by the desire and the offer of listening.
Keywords:
adolescence; emotional trauma; COVID-19 pandemic; psychoanalysis