Qual a perda implicada em um filho que não nasceu?

Abstract

This paper explores the Freudian study that discusses the path women take from the moment they decide to be a mom to the baby’s lack of satisfaction. The texts about the sexual organization of women have allowed the analyses to start from the mother and the woman, then the adolescent, the latent, the girl, and, finally, the newborn stage. Investigating what, in each of these passages, the woman loses as well as how she replaces, even partially, these losses. This reverse path starts with motherhood. In this way, it was possible to explore the beginning of the mother-child relationship, still during pregnancy, considering the interaction between the physiological manifestations of her body and her imaginary. That is, before the actual meeting with her child, what are her interactions with the baby and her expectations about the pregnancy. The research sought to investigate, from the theoretical contribution of psychoanalysis, especially Freud’s works, the possible impacts of the loss of the baby on the maternal investments of this pregnancy and to problematize the construction and elaboration of mourning. The investigation focused, more specifically, on the hypothesis, often put forward by the puerperia, of a return to the gestational state. It supposes that this return seems to mean, for mothers who lose their babies during pregnancy, a possibility to immediately overcome the pain of the loss as an alternative to the mourning that it mobilizes. It concludes that the loss of an unborn child may account for the loss of the object of primary satisfaction.