THE AVOSITY AND THE RELATIONAL PARADOX

PSYCHOANALYTIC CONTRIBUTIONS

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2023v29p112-138

Keywords:

Parenting, Bonding, Paradox, Avosity, Mourning work

Abstract

Grandparenthood is a kinship bond that acquires a parental function to the extent that the parents are absent or prevented from exercising such a function. In light of psychoanalytic contributions, a clinical case will be discussed in which, faced with grief over the death of a child, a grandmother assumes the parental role of her grandson. The relational paradox that permeates this relationship and that appears in the antagonistic and contradictory situations with which the subject has to deal was noted, namely, assuming the unavoidable parental role in relation to the grandson and dealing at the same time with the work of mourning in front of to the tragic situation of the death of a child. However, it is this paradox that calls on this woman to remain invested in life, through the possibility of psychic transformation when exercising parenthood in the face of the trauma experienced.

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Author Biographies

Ingrid Fernandes dos Santos, Universidade de Brasília

Psicóloga e Mestranda do Programa de Psicologia Clínica e Cultura da Universidade de Brasília

Katia Cristina Tarouquella Brasil, Universidade de Brasília

Professora do Departamento de Psicologia Clínica e Cultura da Universidade de Brasília

Published

2024-12-17