Los personajes de videojuegos como recurso de invención identificatoria en jóvenes adultos.

Abstract

The present research proposed to study video game characters as a resource for identification invention in young adults from a psychoanalytic approach. The importance of this research lies in understanding how video game characters function as objects of identification within the symbolic register, allowing young adults to build their subjectivity through the video game narrative. The objective of the research was to analyze the influence of video game characters as a resource for identification invention in young adults through the descriptive method, bibliographic review, and semi-structured interviews for a clinical practice with young adults from an online community in Mexico. The research was conducted from a qualitative approach, where the interpretive paradigm was used, through the descriptive method, and the data collection techniques used were review of bibliographic sources and semi-structured interviews with young adults that were conducted virtually. The chosen population were young adults from an online community in Mexico. The results showed that most young adults interviewed identify with a video game character, which functions as a resource that contributes to the constitution of the Self and the construction of their subjectivity.