Strange, familiar and pathos

psychoanalytic apprehensions on disabled child adoption

Authors

  • Débora Ferreira Bossa Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
  • Anamaria Silva Neves Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i3p455-467

Keywords:

adoption, cerebral palsy, psychoanalysis

Abstract

Supported by psychoanalytic research, this study aimed to understand the active psychic movements in a mother’s choice of adopting a disabled child diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The interlocution between the elements strange (unheimlich), familiar (heimlich) and passion (pathos) was carried out for the analysis of the case. The psychoanalytic analysis indicated implications for the mother-child linkage as a condition for their psychic survival, the demand for a disabled child as a maternal resource to revisit the marks of their own history, and maternal overinvestment that integrally restored her motherhood.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

  • Débora Ferreira Bossa, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
    Mestre em Psicanálise e Cultura pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Aplicada da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Uberlândia, MG, Brasil.
  • Anamaria Silva Neves, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

    Pós-Doutorada pelo CWASU - Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit. Docente do curso de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Uberlândia, MG, Brasil.

     

Published

2017-12-23

Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Bossa, D. F., & Neves, A. S. (2017). Strange, familiar and pathos: psychoanalytic apprehensions on disabled child adoption. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 22(3), 455-467. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i3p455-467