Autolesão não suicida como processo comunicativo e estético

Abstract

This final course work (TCC) consists of a selection of activities linked to my activity plan in scientific initiation, which integrated the research HISTORIOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS IN CURRENT MEDIA NARRATIVES ABOUT SELF-HARM PRACTICES. We justify this research by the growing public interest in information about the relationship between non-suicidal self-harm and the use of social networks by young people, considering their potential for benefit and/or harm. Underlying this interest is the observation that young people with a history of non-suicidal self-harm have preferred these media for the purpose of attributing meaning to their own practices, as an alternative to seeking health services. Regarding the excerpt that I present in this TCC, the information was constructed in two stages: a) survey of posts containing the keywords: self-harm, social media, and Twitter, during the months of December/2021 and February/2022; b) a narrative analysis, in which we discuss the emerging onfiguration of two profiles in the posts: immersed in diaries and normalization. In the results, we highlight that on the social media Twitter, non-suicidal self-harm was expressed as an aesthetic act. In addition, we observed that there is a tension between discourses focused on pathologization and others focused on . normalization. We believe that this tension indicates the relevance of communicative processes in the constitution, organization, and expression of this phenomenon characterized as non-suicidal self-harm. Based on the information produced in this research, we conclude that non-suicidal self-harm indicates an inability to construct the sign to give meaning to one's own experiences in the world. This inability presupposes the effects of a complex interaction, which includes aspects of a biological and cultural nature, mobilized by affective experiences.