Ser mãe é padecer no paraíso? Recursos psíquicos acionados no processo de tornar-se mãe

Abstract

Becoming a mother can impact a woman's psyche. From early childhood, the woman is faced with questions of laborious elaboration about herself. In the mold of Brazilian culture, inheritance of its historical process, it is usually the mother who transmits to her daughter the notions about herself. Although maternal experience expands the possibilities of story rewriting, it also reveals a field of possible ambivalence, widening of helplessness and suffering. This work is a qualitative intervention research, based on the psychoanalytical method, which took place in a women's health clinic in a hospital in the interior of Minas Gerais. The objective was to research the resources and mechanisms of psychological defense used by pregnant women in the face of psychological distress. For this research, 4 to 6 psychological consultations were performed with each of the 4 participants. From the recorded reports, it was discussed about the care and affection raised in the relationship between mother and baby and the psychic resources used in the construction of the relationship, based on the Winnicottian theorization, Freud's concept of helplessness and denial as well as enlargement of the concept of denial of Green. As a result, there are psychic mechanisms triggered in the (re) experience of maternal care. At the end of the gestational period, it opens the possibility of feeling again the relationship of (dis) care and / or failures that women experienced as daughters and questions about the modes of care they had. However, in pregnancy the failures that women report and deny are no longer their mothers', but marks of their own self, reenacted by the timelessness of the unconscious.