The psychoanalyst and hospitalized infants

Authors

  • Alexandra de Oliveira Martins Biocor Instituto
  • Guilherme Massara Rocha Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i3p507-521

Keywords:

psychoanalysis, infant, congenital malformation

Abstract

The clinical practice with hospitalized infants sparks the analyst’s interest for their mental constitution and for the dimensions of the enigma of childhood. The hospital’s psychoanalyst shelters the encounter between mother and baby as a “rest” that escapes medical care, listening to and intervening in that which involves the singular in this primordial and fundamental relation. The contingency of congenital malformation was considered, although not as a final sentence that would nullify the infant’s and his/her mother’s desire. The unknowable, this point that escapes medical science, acknowledges the active bond between body and mind in the human being’s constitution.

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Author Biographies

  • Alexandra de Oliveira Martins, Biocor Instituto

    Psicóloga e psicanalista. Coordenadora do Serviço de Psicologia do Biocor Instituto. Membro da equipe multidisciplinar do Núcleo de Assistência Integral a Cardiopatia Congênita e Estrutural. Mestre em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.

  • Guilherme Massara Rocha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Psicanalista. Membro da International Society of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis e da Fèdération Européenne de Psychanalyse. Professor do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil.

Published

2017-12-31

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Articles

How to Cite

Martins, A. de O., & Rocha, G. M. (2017). The psychoanalyst and hospitalized infants. Clinical Styles. The Journal on the Vicissitudes of Childhood, 22(3), 507-521. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i3p507-521