Juventude e universidade : neoliberalismo e processos de subjetivação.

Abstract

Neoliberal rationality is established in a social fabric in which the company format is generalized and disseminated in the way of constituting and living processes and experiences, which leads to utilitarian expectations of time and the need for constant productivity. The other is perceived as a potential competitor, stimulated by competition and the absence of solidarity. In the university space, it is no different, as it makes up this social fabric, a prominent place in the formation and constitution of thinking subjects who will occupy different spaces in society. In view of this, this study seeks to understand how youth's journeys occur in the university context in terms of the impacts of productivist logic on the mental health of young university students, problematizing this neoliberal rationality and the production of ways of being an undergraduate student. To this end, the methodological path of cartography was taken, as proposed by Deleuze and Guattari, as a learning of sensitivity with the fields of forces, with the opening to problematization and the cultivation of attention to the living field of forces in the researcher's territory. Field diaries and individual interviews were used to produce data. The research took place among undergraduate students at a University in the Southern Region of Brazil, in total, 10 subjects participated. To follow the narratives and the fields of forces that compose them, there was a dialogue with Foucauldian studies and post-critical authors. Finally, from the analysis two markers emerged: “University, youth and modes of subjectivation” which problematizes the ways of being an undergraduate student in the university experience and “Encounters, possibilies and mental health: weaving reflections” composed of tensions in the students' narratives related to “mental health”, where it also invested in the discussion of the production of other modes of care and the composition of the university students' journeys. The analyzes made it possible to think about points that seem to help, support and bring meaning to university experiences and through this, using some steps of Strategic Design, a technical product called “University crossings: encounters and possibilities” was created, which is characterized as audiovisual teaching material and aims to bring the viewer closer to some of the possibilities of the university experience, bringing focus to meetings and extra-class learning through a journey made up of landscapes, fields and possibilities. It is considered essential to support the importance of coexistence during the training period, as the university experience can enhance and produce new encounters, which produce new affections and can give new contours to this experience. Furthermore, we can think about mental health beyond the point of mental health education or individual clinical-therapeutic services.