BEING AND DOING IN CONTEMPORARY MOTHERHOOD

Daisy’s request, an light-month pregnant woman, for using flowers during her first therapeutic encounter, was received by the psychotherapist as a verysingular way of realizing in the world. Soon we noticed that her doing was profoundly marked by several surgeries and clinical treatments to correct...

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Authors: GRANATO, Tania Mara Marques, AIELLO-VAISBERG, Tânia Maria José
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2003
Country:Brasil
Institution:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (PUC-CAMPINAS)
Repository:Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas)
Language:Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br:article/6677
Online Access:https://periodicos.puc-campinas.edu.br/estpsi/article/view/6677
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:maternidade contemporânea
gestação
clínica winnicottiana
contemporary motherhood
pregnancy
winnicottian clinic
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Summary:Daisy’s request, an light-month pregnant woman, for using flowers during her first therapeutic encounter, was received by the psychotherapist as a verysingular way of realizing in the world. Soon we noticed that her doing was profoundly marked by several surgeries and clinical treatments to correct a cleft lip and palate, noted after she was given birth. After this life event Daisy became a “warrior”, who was always ready to fight any battle, since they were seen as a solution for her physical problem. Paradoxically, or not, Daisy has “forgotten” the flowers and dared to take a break during her way through doing domain, in order to be accompanied by the therapist through being.Delivery frightened her, because the integration between male and female elements, being and doing, body and psyche was required. We have testified,through Daisy, the lack of tuning between the mother’s being and doing in the present.