Observations on the contemporary era and its influence on child subjectivity

Abstract

The present article arises from the work carried out in the research Project PROICO 4-1714 “Practice with children at present” from Facultad de Ciencias Humanas (National University of San Luis) which aims at analyzing the symptoms in the children and adolescents under the framework of Freud´s developments and Lacan´s teachings. Increasingly, children of young age arrive to the consulting room with a diagnosis, a medical treatment and a plan of therapy sessions after visiting a neurologist or a pediatrician. Considering this increase, an analysis of the current era is carried out in order to know how the social conditions have influenced the child subjective constitution, especially in the establishment of symptomatic expressions which have thus led to a growing pathologization and medication of children.