Docentes suicidados: do professorar lúgubre à vida (im)possível

Abstract

It is in the courage of the feared response that life is born. But the other. This leaves the doing undone in vital meaning. As a shelter, the following that bids us farewell and signs the outcome of the fate that teachings and, yes, their teachers were under, now sheltered, already dead. And in this, in the horror that we want to remove, is the research focused on suicidal teaching subjects who in Brazilian public and private universities built their work, until they no longer did so. This is an undertaking that, touching these subjects in their subjectivity, offers the opportunity to dialogue with the working conditions that confined them and that would have been structures for promoting self-extermination. It is qualitative research that, attentive to a growing quantitative universe, intended to think about teaching working conditions, in multiple possibilities. To this end, relying on referential bibliographical research, I bring the discussion from a critical suicidology, taking into account the view it offers regarding suicide, understood as a historical phenomenon and the result of a social totality that is based on violence, primary factor in its determination. It is a bet in which we highlight the dialectic of the relationship between individual health, society and the ethical-political dimension of the suffering of this human suffering teacher. Along this path, we turned to exploratory, field research, with semi-structured interviews with family members and/or co-workers of teachers who self-exterminated. Ultimately, this is research that brings yet another look, perhaps less popular and usual, at the meanings of being a teacher in the Brazilian educational context. It is death that, by providing shelter, offers us, the unsuspecting, other vital shelters, the kind that can be endured.