Virtual fantasies of girls and the vulnerabilities in adolescents

Abstract

This presented article intends to examine the main virtual fantasies of a group of girls, aged between 13 and 16, students of their final year of primary school of a public school and a private school in Sao Paulo. This was an empirical research of qualitative nature, based on Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory. The data was collected with the application of a questionnaire and individual and group interviews; as well as the analysis of the profiles of teens on social networks. It was found that most of the girls expend many hours daily in cyberspace attracted by the possibility of exercising their virtual fantasies, whose main themes were: the beloved-chosen; the mother-baby and celebrity. It was concluded that adolescents from public schools were more vulnerable to fantasies, especially when it comes to sexuality and early motherhood. It is thus considered the importance of educational proposals to develop in adolescent's critical capacity regarding the virtual environment, especially to the fantasies produced by the audio-visuals industry and disseminated on social networks.