Abstract

LOBO, Silvia. The recreating of the winnicottian mother: the threatened spontaneous gesture. J. psicanal. [online]. 2018, vol.51, n.95, pp. 307-316. ISSN 0103-5835.

This work brings a concern about the destiny of babies. Winnicott points out that for a mother to do well in her task, she simply needs to be an ordinary woman. She does not have to be intelligent; she does not need to be educated, advised or let alone be muddled by theories or prescriptions. The maternal devotion is enough to allow their babies to remain spontaneous and able to develop their own expressiveness. Today, however, this mother who we have learned to think about in the constitution of what is human, whose existence and care have detained the special function of presenting the external world to the baby, making illusion possible, is in the process of disappearing. There has been a rupture in this solid and coherently constructed building that lived on the old and accurate unit of mothers-babies-environment, which is endangered, threatened of extinction. Thus, how can we think of the experience of motherhood constituted in the spontaneous gesture in the conditions of a search for consolidation of new spaces occupied by women in modern societies? How to do without it? How to welcome the babies who are coming? Where can we recreate the mother conceived by Winnicott?

Keywords : modernity; threatened motherhood; new caregivers.

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