Afiliação do estudante universitário Uma análise a partir da Psicologia Cultural Semiótica.

This article presents a study that aims to comprehend the affiliation to university life. This study utilizes a cultural semiotic psychology perspective theoretical framework. This framework focuses on analyzing human beings developmental trajectories and meaning-making processes. The data were collected at the end of 2021 through semi-structured interviews. The process of data analysis applies the method of elaboration of thematic categories. As the main results of this study, it has been found that the university context could catalyze the sensation of nonbelonging. From this point of view, the university could reproduce prejudices and discrimination of gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation. In this sense, the study discusses that experience in university life contains a considerable affective aspect that the student experiments in an affective semiotic dimension. Finally, the study concludes with the necessity of more research related to the affiliation of university life, especially in postgraduate students, to contribute to public policies to support university students and their psychic suffering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]