A genealogia da infância marginal no Brasil: o governo do impossível /

Abstract

Since the advent of modernity, children became a source of interest and concern at social and political levels. The creation of specific legislation for the care of childhood appears, therefore, in a context of worshiping the norm and the average. Legislation arises to try to solve the problem of children who were outside the norm, children who were on the margin of the average pattern, the average model, which is called marginal childhood in this work. Through the genealogical method, it is sought to rescue the history of this childhood in Brazil and to bring to the fore the discursive web of the relations of power and knowledge in modernity and contemporaneity that generate ideas and practices about marginal children. From this survey, it can be seen that the proposals of governmentality of marginal childhood fail continuously, as well as the use of violent and segregatory practices return all the time when dealing with these children. In order to analyze these findings, this work resorted to the freudian theory, specifically to concepts such as infantile, fantasy, sexuality, drive and unconscious, as a source for articulating individual, social and political issues. Thus, the present research develops a hypothesis of public intentions towards marginal childhood, extending it to current policies and practices such as investment in early childhood. Finally, a direction to think a possible form of care with marginal childhood is proposed.