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MONOPARENTAL FAMILIES: A PSYCHOANALYTIC VISION

This research focuses on monoparental families from a psychoanalytic point of view, exploring the contemporary family structure, the roles of parents and children, and the challenges faced by these families. The study is based on qualitative research conducted with hospital employees and aims to provide insight for psychotherapeutic treatment.

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MONOPARENTAL FAMILIES: A PSYCHOANALYTIC VISION

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  1. MONOPARENTAL FAMILIES: A PSYCHOANALYTIC VISION

  2. PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO PUC - SP Lisette Weissmann Famílias monoparentais: um olhar psicanalítico MESTRADO EM PSICOLOGIA CLÍNICA SÃO PAULO 2008

  3. FAMILIES OF THE XXI CENTURY • Different from the traditional model • New family structures • “The contemporary family is a democratic, horizontal institution, which has decentralized power that is divided amongst its members.” Elizabeth Roudinesco. • Family roles: symmetric, rotate, interchangeable, temporary and random

  4. CONTEMPORARY FAMILIES • Weakening of the social function of the father in his paternal role • Widening of the strength, presence and simbolism of mothers • Maternal roles given to fathers • “The power of the mothers”

  5. RESEARCH ON MONOPARENTAL FAMILIES • UNIFESP (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) • NASF (Núcleo de atencão aos funcionários do hospital)

  6. TARGET POPULATION: • Monoparental families of hospital employees • Lower middle class • Reason for consult: anxiety/anguish • Required psychotherapeutic treatment • Family’s current situation: adolescent sons, violent relationships, lack of support.

  7. FAMILY STRUCTURE • Mother (only constant figure) • Children from different biological fathers

  8. QUALITATIVE RESEARCH • Two themes: • Clinical theme: study of monoparental families • Theoretical theme: Teoría de las Configuraciones Vinculares (Bond theory, Dr. Isidoro Berenstein, Dr. Janine Puget) THEORETICAL-CLINICAL RESEARCH

  9. A) SOCIAL CONTEXT • Little support • Situations of loss and neglect • Fathers – no place in the family • Genitor # pater • Mothers in all parental spaces • Social neglect: only parental figure, no dual income, feelings of abandonment, young black mothers, lack of education

  10. B) BIOLOGICAL MODEL • Two different gametes needed • Sexuality: lack of space for two • Mother steals father’s semen: pregnancy • Women take charge of their children ≠ Men abandon their parental role

  11. Monoparental family by maternal decision • Mothers deny the father’s role and the father, himself • Father’s role cannot be erased • Father’s role in society

  12. C) MEN - GENITORES • Do not claim place as fathers • Maternal presence does not allow a space for the other (alteridad)

  13. D) CHILDREN • Denounce the family situation (lack of masculine role) • Oppose maternal desire to reject the other • Relationship problems between mothers and adolescent sons • Sons’ masculine bodies

  14. SONS • Bring the outside world into the family: - street life - work - school - access to others • Masculine role models?

  15. E) HARD TO RECOGNIZE THE OTHER AS OTHER • Family communication: predominantly monologues, excessive anguish • Violent dialogues

  16. F) SOCIAL SPACE • Room for another person between mother and son • Leaving the family • Culture is transmitted through the mother to the children • Sense of direction in family structure

  17. G) FAILURE OF FATHERLY FUNCTION • Fatherly function: interdiction, differences, order • Sense of direction within the family structure • Through treatment, mothers allow the fatherly function to appear • Mother left alone • Space of uncertainty and incompleteness

  18. H) FAMILY PSYCHOANALYTIC CLINIC • Aggressive emotional climate • Transference - countertransference • Aggressive motherly discourse • Psychoanalyst shields violence • Families without limits or frameworks

  19. I) PSYCHOANALYTIC SETTING • Circulation of diverse ideas • Work with the other • Expanding ideas to create a common cultural structure for all • Construction in transference

  20. MONOPARENTAL FAMILIES • From a social construction to a subconscious psychoanalytic comprehension

  21. “Mirar da miedo porque es riesgoso Si estuviéramos realmente decididos a ver no sabemos lo que vamos a ver… todo lo que somos de mejor Es resultado del espanto. Como prescindir de la posibilidad de espantarse? Lo mejor de ir a la calle a espiar el mundo es que No sabemos qué es lo que vamos a encontrar. Esa es la gracia mayor de ser repórter. Esa es la gracia mayor de ser gente”. Elaine Brum A vida que ninguém vê, Porto Alegre, Ed. Arquipiélago, 2006

  22. Psicóloga Lisette Weissmann Rua Atilio Innocenti 1058 Vila Olímpia, São Paulo - SP CEP 04538-002 / Brasil TEL: (11) 9431 6233 lisettewbr@yahoo.com.br

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