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This article discusses the"violent" means of representation of the social aspect employed by middle and upper-class young people. The analysis is based on the movie Cat's cradle and on some violent episodes broadcasted by the media (1997-2007). Such material, along with concepts from psychoanalysis and others by Walter Benjamin, lead to the following questions: what are the vectors of the brutality perpetrated by young people who do not suffer with extreme social privation? What conditions contribute towards the rise of such episodes? As episodes and concepts are integrated and fully discussed, comes the realization that such acts have a double function: they are means through which young people return the ill-being caused by the void in their experiences with family and society, and they also work as means to legitimate their self-representation in social contexts

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