Bem-me-quer, mal-me-quer: narrativas de universitárias sobre o aborto provocado

Abstract

Although the contemporary woman has been conquering other spheres, not being exclusively associated to maternity anymore, the right to interrupt voluntarily a pregnancy is stills denied to her. This search aimed to investigate the emotional experience of women, who, during their graduations at university, interrupted clandestinely their pregnancies. Therefore, individual interviews were realized with 10 women, academics or recent graduates, from the central region of Brazil. An interactive narrative was used as a mediator resource, which the participants being invited to complete it and, after that, to narrate their own stories. After each interview, a psychoanalytical narrative was wrote by the interviewer. The set of these narratives was psychoanalytically analyzed, using the Theory of Fields, and, subsequently, the discussion about the fields took place from theorists of Psychoanalysis, especially D. W. Winnicott, as well as from authors of specialized literature. Three fields were identified, through which it was observed that the participants’ choice for abortion occurred because of their feeling that the pregnancy had erupted early, when they still felt they were very dependent. The abortions were experienced in a lonely way, combined to the feeling of persecution. It was noticed the paralisation in some post abortion narratives, but, in most of the cases, the abortion was elaborated and restructured. It is expected, from this work, to promote reflections about the emotional impact of undercover abortion among the social group of the young adult woman.