Esquizoanálise e instituições disciplinares: uma leitura crítica do sistema socioeducativo na produção de subjetividades de adolescentes privados de liberdade

Abstract

In this theoretical essay, I critically analyze the socio-educational system from a schizoanalytic perspective, seeking to understand how this disciplinary device operates in the production of subjectivities of adolescents deprived of liberty. I draw on my experiences in socio-educational units in Manaus, which raised concerns about the paradox between the discourse of protection and punitive practices still present in the functioning of socio-education, despite legal advances. I use concepts from this theoretical framework and other literature that allow me to discuss the notion of institution, the disciplinary model, the modes of subjectivation and capture of desire, analyzing how mechanisms of surveillance, discipline, and normalization permeate these spaces and adjust subjectivities to normative and capitalist models. Furthermore, I highlight the strength of molecular and flight lines as expressions of subversion and invention in the face of the rigidity of molar movements that characterize conservative forces of dominant social orders. Finally, this essay allows us to reflect that schizoanalysis offers ethical and political tools to rethink care and protection practices in socio-education, focusing on actions that empower desire, value the uniqueness of adolescents, and open spaces for creation for other ways of existing, feeling, and desiring.