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Estilos da Clinica

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MARTINS, Alexandra de Oliveira  and  ROCHA, Guilherme Massara. The psychoanalyst and hospitalized infants. Estilos clin. [online]. 2017, vol.22, n.3, pp. 507-521. ISSN 1415-7128.  http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-1624.v22i3p1-15.

The clinical practice with hospitalized infants sparks the analyst's interest for their mental constitution and for the dimensions of the enigma of childhood. The hospital's psychoanalyst shelters the encounter between mother and baby as a "rest" that escapes medical care, listening to and intervening in that which involves the singular in this primordial and fundamental relation. The contingency of congenital malformation was considered, although not as a final sentence that would nullify the infant's and his/her mother's desire. The unknowable, this point that escapes medical science, acknowledges the active bond between body and mind in the human being's constitution.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; infant; congenital malformation.

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