A família e a destituição do poder familiar - um estudo psicanalítico

Abstract

The removal of the family power appears as legal action applied to situations of extreme violence, abandonment and neglect, in which parents and are considered unable to perform paternity function / maternity, lose the position of rights and duties towards their children . Thus, studies that problematize this legal institution and its reverberations for the family, become extremely relevant to broaden the discussions in this context. This study aims to analyze, from the psychoanalytic method, the family impeachment process, highlighting aspects of the dynamics of mental functioning and parental and deadlocks family-judiciary relationship. The research strategies used were clinical case and documentary research. 22 sessions were held with Amanda, a 10-year-old in the Family Power removal process, and her guardian and aunt, Ruth. The case was referred for clinical care by the judiciary and involved allegations of sexual abuse by the father and negligence on the part of the mother. The documentary research with the removal process and guard played a support role to the clinical case, allowing the seizure of meanings and forms of mental functioning and parental family. Analyses made themselves from listening in clinical care and reading-directed attention to the processes and session reports. Writing proved fundamental in the design of the analysis, occupying important place in the encounter with the object of study. A pattern of familiar psychic functioning with esquizoparanoides features is evidenced in the case and Amanda identified as a scapegoat on which are designed and deposited threatening aspects of the family. As a form of denial, these aspects are rejected and expelled by a movement away and family estrangement towards the child. The countertransference experience pointed to the feeling of being lost over different parts of research and spoke of a lost subject in the processes. The judicial intervention in family made repeated violence, abandonment and rejection felt by Amanda in the various situations of return for the family. Thus Case Amanda denounces not only a tragic family organization of violence and abandonment, but also a system that stumbles and tumbles in their attempts to protection of children and family. System that is not restricted to the figure of the judge or the judiciary, but covers the organs and entities of the society they propose to the care of families in socially vulnerable. The study calls us to think beyond devices to rules implementing regulations and to consider the subject and the family in its singularity. While professionals are challenged to broaden the field of discussions about the family and children in our society.