Are today's children smarter?

Authors

  • Marcelo Ricardo Pereira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Faculdade de Educação

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v16i2p338-347

Keywords:

child, sexuality, psychoanalysis

Abstract

Yes and no. Yes because children have "adultified" themselves due to the adult's demand to consider them as the period that holds the key for the adult's own being. And no because the children resist. Psychoanalysis, since the Three Essays..., is perhaps one of the few areas of knowledge which is able to admit the child's irreducible character: its sexuality, its real point. Therefore our civilization insists on repressing it. Until when the actions of older people will be the specter that makes the little ones hesitant to become great?

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Published

2011-12-01

Issue

Section

The decline of the knowledges

How to Cite

Pereira, M. R. (2011). Are today’s children smarter?. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 16(2), 338-347. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v16i2p338-347