Abortamento legal, violência sexual e adolescência: impasses afetivos

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze and understand the affective impasses experienced by an adolescent/child victim of sexual violence and her family facing legal abortion. Based on the psychoanalytic method, the psychological counseling was conducted with Acacia, an 11-year old girl who had been sexually assaulted by her stepfather since she was 9 and became pregnant. The abortion was decided based on medical and psychological evaluation. Acacia and her mother were attended at the “Núcleo de Atenção Integral à Vítimas de Violência” (NUAVIDAS), located in the “Hospital de Clínicas de Uberlândia da Universidade Federal Uberlândia” (HCU-UFU). Psychological support was performed during the abortion procedure and the Special Testimony, wich was held at the city forum. The bond with the family, expressed in transferential aspects, gave rise to the affective ambivalence experienced by mother and daughter towards the aggressor, incestuous violence as a transgenerational parental inheritance, the mother's role as a protective figure for the daughter, as well as the affective elements and their impasses before, during and after abortion. In conclusion, the perspective of Psychoanalysis, in dialogue with other disciplines, made it possible to access the complexity of the theme regarding legal abortion in children/adolescents, giving rise to the imminent need for full discussion on this taboo theme.