Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MARIA LUIZA ALVES DE CARVALHO

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARIA LUIZA ALVES DE CARVALHO
DATE: 10/12/2025
TIME: 16:30
LOCAL: Sala de Atos FE1
TITLE:

University trajectories and subjective suffering: a perspective based on the theory of subjectivity

KEY WORDS:

Education; subjective suffering; abusive use of alcohol and drugs; university; subjectivity

PAGES: 72
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The use of alcohol and other drugs among university students has gained increasing visibility in Brazilian and international research, revealing complex articulations between living conditions, educational trajectories, and experiences of subjective suffering. Studies indicate that higher education students present higher rates of substance use when compared to non-university youth (Andrade et al., 2012; Simplício et al., 2021). However, much of the existing analyses remains grounded in biomedical, moralizing, or behavioral models that tend to reduce the phenomenon to an individual deviation, overlooking how subjective senses, institutional practices, and forms of subjectivation shape substance use. This project is situated within the field of Education by understanding the university as a space of subjective productions that may be marked by academic challenges, performative pressures, and social expectations of success. It aligns with the research line Education and Diversity in Childhood, Youth, and Adulthood of the Graduate Program in Education at the University of Brasília (EDIJAPPGE/UnB), particularly regarding its emphasis on culture, history, subjectivity, and social and political relations in educational processes across the lifespan. In this perspective, the study seeks to understand drug use not as an isolated phenomenon but as an expression of subjective configurations produced in the relational dynamics between young people, institutions, and contemporary sociocultural contexts, especially when permeated by experiences of subjective suffering. Drawing on González Rey’s Theory of Subjectivity (2005; 2011), the study foregrounds, above all, the concepts of social subjectivity and subjective configurations, conceiving substance use as a complex process that emerges from the articulation of personal histories, moralities, institutional experiences, and social expectations. The general objective is to understand how subjective suffering associated with the use of drugs and/or alcohol is subjectively configured among university students. Methodologically, this is a qualitative study grounded in the principles of the constructive-interpretive methodology and Qualitative Epistemology (González Rey, 2005; González Rey & Mitjáns Martínez, 2017). It will employ conversational dynamics that enable the construction of indicators and interpretative hypotheses throughout the fieldwork. Through these processes, the study aims to generate intelligibilities about subjective configurations that express meanings, tensions, vulnerabilities, and strategies produced by students in their relationship with subjective suffering associated with substance use and with the university experience. It is expected that the interpretative work will contribute to expanding the debate on subjective suffering among university students, offering insights for educational policies and practices that acknowledge the complexity of university life and substance use, and that support subjective development.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 3171415 - DANIEL MAGALHAES GOULART
Externo ao Programa - 1063636 - PEDRO HENRIQUE ANTUNES DA COSTA - nullExterna à Instituição - VALERIA DEUSDARA MORI - CEUB
Interna - 2212002 - VIVIANE NEVES LEGNANI