Interactive narratives in the investigation of the collective imaginary about motherhood

Abstract

Considering narration and psychoanalysis as processes of interpreting human experience, a narrative was developed to investigate the collective imaginary about motherhood. It is a fictional story elaborated by the researchers based on their clinical experience with pregnant women. When the interactive narrative reaches a climax, the researcher interrupts the story and invites the participants to complete it. Subsequently, the researcher and participants discuss the addressed topic and their own experiences during the writing process. In the present study, an interactive narrative about a couple which faces the possibility of having a baby with Down syndrome was presented to two groups of undergraduate Pedagogy and Psychology students. The psychoanalytical consideration of the narratives completed suggested expectations of an idealized mother who would accept her child unconditionally despite the implied sacrifice and her own feelings and a strong and protective father, when present. Conceptions of motherhood and its conflicts are discussed.Keywords: Imaginary; Motherhood; Narratives; Psychoanalysis. Resumo Considerando o narrar e a psicanálise como processos de elaboração da experiência humana

Pais encarcerados: narrativas de presos sobre a experiência da paternidade na prisão

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Teacher's imaginative elaborations on adolescence: a Winnicottian reading

“…The fields of this study are configurations of affective-emotional meanings that are organized around a given experience, exposing their individual and collective aspects, based on the imaginative elaborations of the research participants (Granato & Aiello-Vaisberg, 2016). Each field is named in order to communicate the dramatic meaning of the experience of one or more participants, since the individual is always produced in conjunction with the collective, according to the conception of a socially constituted person (Bleger, 1984).…”

“…For data collection, which took place in the framework of a group interview, we used the Interactive Narrative (IN) procedure, which was created by Granato and Aiello-Vaisberg (2016) as a resource for psychoanalytic investigation, which aims to access the emotional experience of the participants in relation to a certain theme, problem, or situation. Based on the assumption that the narratives we elaborate throughout life aim not only at communication per se, but at the very elaboration of living (Granato, Russo, & Aiello-Vaisberg, 2009), we proposed the narrative as an invitation for the participant to live an experience, and did not explain it, giving new meanings to their experiences (Benjamin, 1936(Benjamin, /1996.…”

“…The idea of using an IN as an investigative resource aimed to privilege the dialogic characteristic of the meeting between researchers and participants, giving them the opportunity to identify with the characters and the conflicts conveyed by the narrative. In a protected and playful way, once it moves through the fictional field, the IN invites the participant to create an outcome for the situation presented by the researcher (Granato & Aiello-Vaisberg, 2016;Granato, Corbett, & Aiello-Vaisberg, 2011).…”

O imaginário coletivo de mulheres de meia-idade com câncer de mama em tratamento quimioterápico

“…Especialmente quanto ao acometimento por câncer de mama em mulheres jovens, a literatura recomenda atenção às questões específicas, tais como o planejamento familiar, a preservação da fertilidade e capacidade reprodutiva (Harbeck & Gnant, 2017); ao passo que para mulheres na faixa etária dos 50-60 anos outras questões seriam importantes, como as alterações corporais decorrentes da perda da juventude, entrada no climatério, início e fim da menopausa, com repercussão emocionais importantes (C.L. Souza, 2005 (Aiello-Vaisberg, 2017;Aiello-Vaisberg & Follador e Ambrosio, 2006;Granato & Aiello-Vaisberg, 2016;Minhoto, Follador-Ambrosio, & Aiello-Vaisberg, 2007). A literatura reconhece a pluralidade e diversidade dos imaginários coletivos relacionados ao processo do envelhecimento.…”