Homoparentalidade masculina e maternidade

Abstract

Homoparentality, when exercised by male same-sex families, provokes questions regarding the theoretical elaborations about motherhood in psychoanalysis. This work starts off on the question of how a man, who would not be under the Freudian Penisneid, could engage himself in the task of investing phallic value in a child, a position classically belonging to women. Through a bibliographical research, it discusses what value a child would have in a homoaffective partnership between two men and wonder if the Lacanians orientation psychoanalysis would provide theoretical instruments that would allow it to read and operate on the transformations of that field. In order to carry out a treatment to the question, we started with a historical insertion, a brief exploration of the theories related to the subject of homosexuality and then a confrontation with the theoretical constructions of motherhood. To handle it, we systematized three reading operators: starting with the First Lacans Teaching, we use the notion of castration and paternal metaphor. Then, passing through the Lacans Note on the Child (1969) we pondered the nonconformity between motherhood and the woman's anatomical sex. Next, we arrived at the Borromean Lacan, in The Seminary 22: R.S.I. (1975). In that manner, we articulate that, in the Oedipus, the child has a phallic value; In Note on the child the organizers of the parental relationship are the individualized care and the not anonymous desire; In R.S.I., the organizer remain the cause of desire, the object a. At this point, faced with the contemporary family order, it was necessary to introduce a component that would provide some linkage between desire and Jouissance and we arrive to love as a solution. Consequently, it was possible to show that the reading of parenthood by Lacanian psychoanalysis is not restricted to the Oedipal model. This allows it to read, not only male same-sex families, but the various questions raised by the today's families.