Abstract

GARZON, Analía Soledad; VILLARROEL, Viviana Mabel  and  MEJIAS, Melisa Angélica. Suicide: Revelator of situations that cause Suffering in a secondary school. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2017, n.52, pp.163-180. ISSN 1668-8104.

This work is part of the research project called Suffering and Creativity in secondary school Institutions (SECTER - UNJU / 2012). The general objective of this study was to investigate linked, group and institutional processes that expressed suffering and creativity in secondary schools.           In this article, we analyze some aspects of the group process in the classroom, occurred after the suicide of a 4th year student who attended a public educational institution in the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina. During 2011, this fact irrupted into the students´ daily life, producing a situation of crisis where latent aspects generated suffering. The work was approached from the perspective of social psychology founded by Enrique Pichon Rivière.           The research was an exploratory study which followed the qualitative logic. By virtue of this, participant observations and open interviews to the students were carried out. After listening to some members of the class and the analysis done, we reflected on suicide, as a social emergent, where the subject is a social spokesperson of what happens in the family and educational context, framed in a social order that determines it

Keywords : Crisis; High school spokesman; Suicide; Suffering.