Abstract

FAVILLI, Myrna Pia; TANIS, Bernardo  and  MELLO, Maria Celina Anhaia. The stolen childhood: reflections on the contemporary clinic. Ide (São Paulo) [online]. 2008, vol.31, n.46, pp. 33-37. ISSN 0101-3106.

The authors intend to develop a reflection over the childhood’s vicissitudes in contemporary clinic. For this, they based themselves on anthropological and the sociological concepts concerning the study of proper characteristics of our time, such as time rushing, the excess of space and the excess of interpretations. Using ideas of transience, rapidity, not-relevancy, proper of the "no-places", they raise the hypothesis of the present infancy, seen in our clinics, to be seen as a "no-place" in the life time. The authors focus on how the current culture traverses the parental inner-self and reveals itself in the subjectivation processes, inculcating over the child’s mind the urgency of narcissistic satisfactions. They argue on how the infancy loses its distinctiveness of playful and magical time, every time that such an urgency of the "adult future" crosses parental’s imaginary. They think about the anxiety of those parent products of another time, a playful time.

Keywords : Early adolescence; Contemporary clinic; Narcissist culture; Childhood place.

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