Entrega (in)voluntária à adoção: a escuta psicanalítica de mulheres no contexto jurídico

Abstract

Brazilian legislation determines that pregnant women or mothers who intend to give their babies up for adoption must be referred to the Childhood and Youth Courts, where they will receive assistance from Psychologists and Social Workers from the Judiciary Branch. This regulation gave rise to proposals for intervention in the various state courts in the country, based on respectful and humanized care for these women. The objective of this research was to analyze their psychoanalytical listening and, secondarily, to access and discuss the subjective impasses presented by them. Three cases assisted by the researcher, who is a Psychologist at the Court of Justice of Minais Gerais, were analyzed through the analysis of three documental records: the records of the attendances performed, the clinical diary and the respective judicial processes. The theoretical and methodological reference used was Psychoanalysis, which allowed the apprehension of the phenomenon from its singularities and the reflections transferentially raised in the researcher. The analysis items were grouped into three times, the first being the instant of seeing, in which was addressed the theme within the Judiciary and the initial narratives of pregnant women about pregnancy. In the following item, the time to understand, were presented reflections on the relationships of pregnant women with their own mothers and the obstacles in the assumption of a baby-subject in their wombs. Finally, in the last item, the moment to conclude, were discussed the considerations about the participants' deliveries and their consequences, as well as the possibilities of a clinical-political listening in the legal environment, analyzing both the work carried out with the pregnant women and the reverberations in the legal discourse on the subject accessed in the processes. Was considered that the psychoanalytical listening of women who seek voluntary surrender to adoption should be based on a clinical-political listening to suffering, with emphasis on their trajectories and social mishaps, stories, desire and subjectivities.