Salve a família? ideais familiares na perspectiva decolonial de jovens de periferia

Abstract

This study comprises qualitative clinical research that utilizes the clinical method grounded in psychoanalytic theory and methodology. It employs three procedures: bibliographic review, conversational interviews, and clinical interviews. The objective of the research was to understand the specificities of brazilian families by analyzing the ideals and family fictions of the participants. We began by explaining the psychoanalytic clinical method and detailing the theoretical and methodological frameworks that guided the instruments used in both theoretical and field research. We also outlined the method employed for analyzing the collected data. Following this, we contextualized the theme within the social and historical frames of reference, focusing on the brazilian context, and then advanced to the psychoanalytic perspective through narrative and integrative literature reviews, respectively. We then presented the field research conducted in a public school on the periphery of Belo Horizonte, using conversational and clinical interviews. For data analysis, we employed psychoanalytically oriented discourse analysis, in line with the clinical framework of this study. A significant finding in this research was the participants' attempts to uphold family ideals compatible with the hegemonic and patriarchal model within their constructed fantasies, even when these ideals were incongruent with the stories they shared and their actual family realities. This endeavor to maintain the family within a patriarchal narrative can be interpreted through the lens of coloniality, which was a central theme during the brazilian colonial period and continues to influence our daily lives and subjectivities. We then discussed these findings in relation to the field research data, combining it with our bibliographic review to critically analyze the theoretical constructs associated with the family.