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For more information on the seminar on Self-harm in adolescence: Theory and clinical practice in psychoanalysis, taught by M. Rinalda Duarte, visit: https://www.institutoespe.com.br/auto... ___________________________________________________________________________ For Freud, adolescence is a time of intense psychic work. A time when the Oedipus complex is re-enacted. It no longer fits into childhood, the loss of the child's body and entry into another bodily register. The experience of detachment from parental authority and the mourning of one's narcissistic place place adolescence in a deterritorialized time. In 1905, Freud described this process as that of building a tunnel, digging on both sides, not always in a straight line. We will reflect on how much external help, a listener, can be decisive for the adolescent who feels lost in the darkness of the tunnel between the two sides - future and past. We will work on the challenges of building a new body and its intersubjective impasses, which are related to sharing this body with another, this border between me and the other. Still limping in its symbolic psychic resources to face the overwhelming anguish that this whole process causes. The adolescent may resort to the practice of self-mutilation, as an attempt to contain this anguish. An act that tries to tie, circumvent the psychic pain and locate it somewhere in the body that can silence what invades it. How can self-mutilation present itself at the beginning of adolescence? For the psychoanalytic clinic, self-mutilation is thought of as a symptom that aims to stop the anguish with the act of cutting oneself. Isn't self-mutilation an attempt to live, even if in an unstructured way? Open class taught by psychoanalyst Rinalda de Oliveira Duarte, graduate in Clinical Psychology (PUC-SP) and Specialist in Theory, Technique and Special Strategies in Psychoanalysis (USP).