Sobre limões e limonadas: ensaio sobre uma tentativa de suicídio a partir da psicodinâmica do trabalho.

Abstract

This essay attempts to describe the intersubjective dynamics of a subject who kills himself or tries to kill himself in a situation where the work is concerned, elucidating the psychological processes in question in the mental illness and the decompensation that leads him to the passage to the act, the role of the social context in this process. For this, we used the Psychodynamics of work and Psychoanalysis in the case analysis of a bank worker who attempts suicide, situating the event in a socio-historical moment. It is concluded that the changes experienced in work called flexibilization tend to shake them echanisms that prevent the mental health of the worker, based on identity, and that suicide happens when collective and individual defenses against suffering are exhausted. Finally, changes that have occurred in labor legislation are presented, which may aggravate and generalize the conditions for the worker's illness.