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SILVA, ANNA CECÍLIA LATANZIO RODRIGUES  e  ABRAO, JORGE LUÍS FERREIRA. Adoptive Motherhood: psychoanalytic understandings about maternal care and its affective representations. Bol. - Acad. Paul. Psicol. [online]. 2023, vol.43, n.105, pp.202-213.  Epub 04-Nov-2024. ISSN 1415-711X.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2176-3038.20230017.

This work aims to understand how maternal care composes the construction of mother-baby affective bonds from an adoption experience. Motherhood traverses several women’s psychic cores and carries a representation of the daughter’s place, as having a child can potentiate various fantasies and desires. When extending to adoptive motherhood, we find several sources of motivation for such, among them there is infertility, which implies an experience of mourning and at the same time a finding as the desire of a child. The Winnicottian theoretical perspective provides support in understanding some of the psychic processes of the mother-baby duo from the concepts of primary maternal concern, holding, handling and the presentation of objects, which allows us to achieve the affective representations of physical and emotional care that the mother good enough to promote the baby. This case study is an excerpt from a master’s dissertation, using the Drawing-Story with Theme procedure and semi-structured interview as conductors of the meeting with an adoptive mother of two twin girls. It can be seen that, given the maternal ambivalence and the availability of physical care, the mother found a way to approach the babies’ needs in order to promote a reliable and safe environment, but it was noticed that there was a maternal difficulty in getting apart from this relationship in order to continue favoring the emotional development of the mother-baby duo.

Palavras-chave : maternity; adoption; care; Winnicott.

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