A Psychoanalytic Reading of Contemporary Symptoms in Adolescence Within the Era of Globalization

Abstract

The arrival of globalization has spread around the world, overcoming cultural barriers and establishing new imperatives that ultimately affected the subjective construction of the subject. The contemporary era is an operation based on a new ideal monitored by the market, which suggests modes of enjoyment subject to compulsion for the consumption of the object, which implies that the emerging symptoms of a panorama at the mercy of productive efficiency reflect without doubt the impact of a policy that has left marks on the subjectivity of society in general, however, adolescence is one of the populations most affected by the effects of globalization to the extent that it is exposed to a diversity of inductions, suggestions and market messages that cause the adolescent to lose his condition as a subject to become a puppet of consumption.