FREIRE, Teresa Cristina G.    CHATELARD, Daniela S.. O aborto é uma dor narcísica irreparável?. []. , 9, 3, pp.1007-1022. ISSN 1518-6148.

The article results from an experience involving psychoanalytic sessions with a group of pregnant women undergoing pre-natal care at the University of Brasilia Hospital during 18 months, a total of 53 sessions./ The objective of the listening sessions is to allow the subjects to reach a better understanding of their subjectivity./ The text approaches psychoanalytical concepts such as narcissism, ambivalence, investment in the object, mourning, melancholy and anguish, relating them to pregnancy and miscarriage./ The article describes experiences with pregnant women who, in the past, experienced the narcissistic pain of miscarriage and discusses how pregnant women can overcome their mourning and become apt to invest in a new pregnancy./ How can these women invest in new children who remind them of previous miscarriages that symbolize their impotence and failure? How to help this woman dream, develop a representation of her child, so as to give him the chance of living? How to help her keep this essential desire? The sessions intend to help the women dream, develop a representation of the child and sustain this essential desire for life. Several clinical cases are shown, including women in different phases of pregnancy./ Each one describes how to deal with the possibility of miscarriage. This article investigates the relationship between pregnant women, who present/ repetitive risk of miscarriage, and their child./ Is it possible for a woman to overcome the pain of/ miscarriage and be ready to invest in a new successful pregnancy?

: pregnancy; abortion; narcissism; mourning; ambivalence.

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