Learning About Human Nature And Analytic Technique From Mothers And Babies

CHAPTER TITLE LEARNING ABOUT HUMAN NATURE AND ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE FROM MOTHERS AND BABIES I LEARNING ABOUT HUMAN NATURE AND ANALYTIC TECHNIQUE FROM MOTHERS AND BABIES Nara Amália Caron and Rita Sobreira Lopes First published in Portuguese in 2014. Copyright © to Editora Dublinense First published in Spanish in 2015. Copyright © to Ediciones Biebel First published in English in 2017 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road, London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2017 to Nara Amália Caron and Rita Sobreira Lopes. The rights of Nara Amália Caron and Rita Sobreira Lopes to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 78220 484 8 Edited, designed and produced by The Studio Publishing Services Ltd www.publishingservicesuk.co.uk email: [email protected] Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com CONTENTS vii ABOUT THE AUTHORS PREFACE by A. H. Brafman ix PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS CHAPTER ONE A place where verbalisation has no meaning CHAPTER TWO A research journey to this place where verbalisation has no meaning 3 23 PART II MOTHERS’ AND BABIES’ JOURNEYS IN THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE CHAPTER THREE Maiara and her twins, Raoni and Anahi: one womb to gestate two, each in its own time v 49 vi CONTENTS CHAPTER FOUR Lucia and her twins, Daniela and Renata: the birth of fraternity in the struggle against maternal indiscrimination CHAPTER FIVE Tânia and her daughter, Julie: the creative recovery of discontinuities in a tailor-made space of protection, care, and mutual growth CHAPTER SIX Alice and her daughter, Valentina: a ferocious struggle to be born CHAPTER SEVEN Philomena: an inner journey back to the beginning 87 119 177 215 PART III BACK TO THE BEGINNING CHAPTER EIGHT The challenges and contributions of this “descent to the realm of the mothers” 241 NOTES 255 REFERENCES 259 INDEX 265 ABOUT THE AUTHORS Nara Amália Caron is a medical doctor, child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst. She is a full member of the Porto Alegre Psychoanalytic Society (SPPA) – Brazil and a training analyst at the SPPA Institute. She was the director of the SPPA Infant and Adolescent Unit 2010–2011. She has been a seminar leader of infant