O nascimento de uma mãe e os princípios de seu poder: contribuições para a psicopatologia fundamental

Abstract

This study is based on clinical experiences with babies and small children with important psychopathological manifestations that implied failure to connect with their mothers. The different diagnostic situations observed in the cases treated led to an investigation of the mothers' power in the perspective for changing the established configurations, in terms of the possibilities for giving existence and producing meaning from suffering. The expression of the principles and fundamentals of humanization were found in this notion of power, among which we emphazise the desire of domination and prohibition. Using as central theme a number of Freudian constructions on the maternal complex, it was possible to identify the phenomenon of ambivalence in processes of mother subjectivation, based on the reconstruction of a clinical case sustained by reference to psychoanalytic research in the field of Fundamental Psychopathology. This field to contemplate all subjective construction as psychopathological necessary, understanding for this, the entity unfinished, inherent to human condition, to bring with him a phatos, a passion, a suffering. The articulations conducted in the course of this investigation broaden the possibilities for considering the experience of the mother's power as fundamental for the emergence of the human being. Discussions on the nature of this elementary experience, related to the notion of hatred, of absence (in the representation of the death drive), of silence and the question as to what a mother is, have represented a step toward possible treatment. The intent is to contribute to the discussion on the exercise of psychoanalytic clinical work with mothers subjected to suffering