| Summary: | Prepared from an interdisciplinary perspective, the article proposes a theoretical discussion of a dailyand re-signified appropriation of legal category underage in Brazilian society. For that, it begins with an analysis of twosocial-historical processes which are opposites and complementary, the invention/valuation of the “ideal childhood” and theintervention/devaluation of the underage, conceived as “troubled childhood”. In the following item the problematization isdone, historically contextualized, of the political activities of support services to underage and their impacts on the socialimaginary. At the end, we seek on psychoanalytic theory timely elements for the reflection on the resistance to adopt the terms child/adolescent when it was assigned to the subjects certain social stigmas, revealing, therefore, a “culture of violence” whichjustifies the denial of alterity of whom are not among the beneficiaries of the system.
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