CALZAVARA, Maria Gláucia Pires    FERREIRA, Monique Aparecida Vale. The maternal function and its place in the child's subjective constitution. []. , 24, 3, pp.432-444. ISSN 1415-7128.  https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v24i3p432-444.

We start from the maxim refrigerator mother, which presents itself in the speculative media as a representative of the psychoanalytical practice, especially in the clinical of childhood pathologies, and we seek to elucidate this expression as a mistake requiring elaboration. For that, we will follow the post-Freudian authors, who took refuge in the maternity to say of the subject, a position that may have contributed to this misconception, and we address to Lacan, who elucidates and differentiates the place of the mother woman as a function. Finally, we conclude that this saying, nowadays, reveals itself as another form of attack on psychoanalysis with regard to the treatment of autistic children.

: psychoanalysis; child; maternal function.

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