Subjectivity and school failure: a case study from an approach to psychoanalysis.

um estudo de caso a partir de uma abordagem da psicanálise

Abstract

School failure occurs when the school requirement exceeds the student's momentary learning ability. From the psychoanalytic perspective and a case study, we sought to recognize the relationship between subjectivity and school failure. Data were obtained from interviews and report analysis of a 17-year-old student complaining of poor academic performance. Based on the literature, it is suggested that school failure would be formulated by issues of rhythms and tensions - which concern the pedagogical expedient of educational institutions but also the Oedipal conflicts, symbolic castration, the quarrels derived from the subject-object relationship. School failure could be visualized as a triangle whose baricenter is learning. At the vertices would be: the student - claimer of this subjectivity; family relationships - which are organized around the tensions of object relations, particularly the mother; the educational institution - which must be appropriated and made aware offering an environment of favorability and personalization for learning to happen Failure would result from the impossibility of this balance and the solution could be based on the convocation of psychotherapy and involvement-acceptance-adaptation at school.