Parenting: From Maternal Myth to Possible Love
Abstact This text brings some reflections on parenthood and perinatality as independent dimensions. The birth of a child does not necessarily imply the birth of a mother. From this, it is discussed that entry into the parental position depends on an act of naming, which is irreversible. For the disc...
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| description | Abstact This text brings some reflections on parenthood and perinatality as independent dimensions. The birth of a child does not necessarily imply the birth of a mother. From this, it is discussed that entry into the parental position depends on an act of naming, which is irreversible. For the discussion, we use a clinical case attended by the Perinatal Listening Project, at the Center for Assistance and Psychological Studies at the University of Brasília. The case refers to a 23-year-old postpartum woman, who complains of difficulty in feeling affection for her newborn daughter “I don’t feel love for her”. A great idealization of motherhood was noticed, as well as barriers to assume the parental position. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3a68923d034a4e669f7a42fbf8b32b202025-08-20T03:48:10ZengUniversidade de BrasíliaPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa1806-34462025-05-0141spe110.1590/0102.3772e41nspe08.enParenting: From Maternal Myth to Possible LoveCintia da Silva Lobato Borgeshttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7725-3394Aline Vidal Varelahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1790-4981Ana Vitória Martins Mendeshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3631-6050Abstact This text brings some reflections on parenthood and perinatality as independent dimensions. The birth of a child does not necessarily imply the birth of a mother. From this, it is discussed that entry into the parental position depends on an act of naming, which is irreversible. For the discussion, we use a clinical case attended by the Perinatal Listening Project, at the Center for Assistance and Psychological Studies at the University of Brasília. The case refers to a 23-year-old postpartum woman, who complains of difficulty in feeling affection for her newborn daughter “I don’t feel love for her”. A great idealization of motherhood was noticed, as well as barriers to assume the parental position.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-37722025000200810&lng=en&tlng=enparenthoodperinatalitypsychoanalysis |
| spellingShingle | Cintia da Silva Lobato Borges Aline Vidal Varela Ana Vitória Martins Mendes Parenting: From Maternal Myth to Possible Love Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa parenthood perinatality psychoanalysis |
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| topic | parenthood perinatality psychoanalysis |
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