A abordagem do sofrimento psíquico nas revistas Exame, Você S/A e Você RH: dimensões simbólicas das dores emocionais no ambiente de trabalho

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With the increasing interest of the printed media specialized in careers and business about the theme of psychological suffering in the work environment, as observed in the hegemonic magazines of the segment, that phenomenon, previously reserved to critical analysis by specialized authors, has been presented to a broad audience, regarding a market economy perspective. Looking forward to understand this phenomenon symbolically, according to science of imaginary, we selected the magazines Exame, Você S/A and Você RH to investigate journalistic articles published in the period of one year, between June 2019 and May 2020, which exposed the psychological suffering in the work environment. Considering the corpus and the proposed theme, our problem was: how is the psychic suffering symbolically represented in the selected magazines, which are dedicated to corporative interests? Our hypothesis is while some aspects of the suffering are highlighted, others are omitted, revealing the symbolic reduction of the phenomenon, in the way that the published content may be essentially connected to the market economy ideas as productivity and/or profit increasing. Nineteen journalistic reports were scrutinized and criticized in the first chapter, so, in the second chapter, were highlighted the exaggerations and omissions, ending with a mythical-archetypal analysis of the mytheme of suffering divided in five categories considered as the “responsible” actions to minimize or solve the problem, according to the maganizes. The theme of Greek mythical martyrdom in the narratives of Tantalus, Ixion, Prometheus, Sisyphus and Danaides was essential to our symbolical analysis. Our conclusions point out that, unlike taking the problem as something to be solved pragmatically, in the market economy point of view, as it is indirectly defended by the magazines, it is essential the symbolical understanding of it, since it is not a problem in itself, but a symptom of something that goes wrong in the society. Our research is based on the reading of the imaginary proposed by Edgar Morin, Gilbert Durand and Malena Contrera, as well as authors in the field of analytical psychology, such as Carl Gustav Jung, James Hillman and Verena Kast, and also researchers in the field of sociology of work, such as Christophe Dejours, Dietmar Kamper, André Gorz and Byung-Chul Han.