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| Author(s): |
Nathalia Teixeira Caldas Campana
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2018-10-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Isabel Cristina Gomes;
Marise Bartolozzi Bastos;
Tania Mara Marques Granato;
José Martins Filho;
Danielly Passos de Oliveira;
Marina Ferreira da Rosa Ribeiro
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| Advisor: | Isabel Cristina Gomes |
| Abstract | |
The nuclear family has undergone changes over the last decades in its structure and in the way its members relate, mainly because of the feminine emancipation that enabled women to build a professional career, not restricting themselves to the mother role. The main objective of this thesis was to understand how parenting occurs in middle-upper-class heterosexual couples with children up to three years old, whose members are between 30 and 40 years old. As secondary objectives, we sought to understand the place the school and the pediatrician occupy in relation to the parental functions and to identify the notion that the interviewees have about child care. Eight couples, the pediatricians attending the children of these couples and the coordinators of the schools where the children of these couples study were interviewed. The interviews were recorded. Data analysis was carried out based on the psychoanalytical framework, with emphasis on the Winnicottian theory of personal maturation and the psychosocial and gender studies. Results were discussed in four categories: 1) maternal care and parental care; 2) possibilities of care: outsourcing and sharing; 3) to care in the interface with to educate: how to deal with limits and frustration; and 4) the parental, the conjugal and the individual. From this study, it was observed that tradition and innovation seem to coexist in the dynamics of parenting, and that the appropriation of parenting can be discussed in two areas. In the couples context, parenting was characterized by 1) greater fluidity in the parental roles; 2) parental equal care, with discursive predominance of an attribution to the greater value of the maternal figure; or 3) disruption with gender binarism in parental exercise, with a predominant attribution of responsibility to one parent. In a second context, considering the partnership established between parents and health and education professionals, these experts appeared as social representatives that could offer support and trust to the couple. In that sense, they offer holding to the parental holding, besides appearing as occupants of a place of orientation (in the case of pediatricians), or temporary substitutes for parental functions, in partnership with parents and / or third parties, representatives of culture, who stand between parents and children (in the case of schools). Among the notions of care found in the interviewees\' discourses, we highlight the paradox experienced by parents: a greater number of possibilities of life paths and different demands, related to individual satisfaction, marital satisfaction and the exercise of parenting, which may result in experiencing greater authenticity, but also greater anguish. It was emphasized that motherhood and fatherhood should be understood in their differences by the logic of alterity, and not by the difference of sex / gender (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 15/03045-0 - Contemporary parenthood and networks of care in the early childhood:from psychosocial studies to Psycoanalysis. |
| Grantee: | Nathalia Teixeira Caldas Campana |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |