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DOURADO, Maira Prieto Bento. The Contemporary Child and the Notion of Care: A Reflection from the Hermeneutic Phenomenology. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.spe, pp.1-13. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v21iesp1.e9492.

Starting from the Heideggerian perspective on the being-there, I present an understanding of the child in contemporaneity, having as a guiding thread the notion of care to understand the ways of being of man in the initial cycle of life. I used phenomenology as a qualitative methodology, linking theory to the author's clinical practice in child psychotherapy. First, I present a theoretical discussion on care based on Heidegger's philosophy, dialoguing with like-minded authors. Subsequently, a bibliographical analysis on the historical path of the ways of relating to the child and how they accumulate new concepts and patterns. Finally, I present a Heideggerian perspective of the child's being there. The conduct of the child to the psychotherapist involves difficulties scientifically called "disorders", which refer to the non-adjustment to normative models constituted in society and culture. These are historical determinations about the meaning of childhood experience and comprise the space in which man's being is set up, but it is necessary to think about how this man is at game in his constitution. In Heidegger, care is found in the ontology of phenomena and precedes any "attitude" or "situation" experienced, which means to be at stake in their existence. The philosopher argues that the child belongs to a chronological phase of being-there, there is no differentiation between being-there as a child or being-there as an adult and points out the current inclination towards diagnoses, which close man as a substance that can be examined, measure, and treated as an object. "Truth", "diagnosis" and "cure" are words that fit into the calculating thinking of modern science, of technique and are revealed in the parents' discourse. The therapeutic space of care allows the understanding of the child not based on a priori determinations but on what appears: the child will, then, be understood based on their meanings.

Palabras clave : child; psychotherapy; Caution; Heidegger.

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