FERREIRA, M. C. Encontrando a criança adotiva: um passeio pelo imaginário coletivo de professores à luz da psicanálise [Finding the adoptive child: a tour through the collective imaginary of teachers in the light of psychoanalysis]. Doctoral Thesis – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas. Campinas (SP), 2005.
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Abstract: The present investigation takes part in a group of psychoanalytical researches on the social imaginary, focusing on the problems regarding adoption. Articulation happens around fieldwork constituted by individual encounters with teachers of elementary and high school education, during which the Thematic-Drawing-and-Story Procedure topic was used as a dialogic mediator. Psychoanalytical narratives from these encounters allowed a comprehensive elaboration of the communications obtained, from which are distinguished unconscious fields organizers of the imaginary: abandonment, lies, the uncanny and the psychopathology. Abandonment is inserted in a net that finds, in the issues of delivery of the child for adoption and in the experiences of helplessness and rejection, other significant knots. Lies are connected to the conducts of hiding the story of the adoption and the family truths. The uncanny seems to be projected in the adoption as a form of leaning over the unknown, possibly in consonance to the dimensions feared of self. At last, the last campo points to the phenomenon of creation of psychopathological theories, through which insuperable emotional frailties are attributed to the adopted children. Such verifications make us ethically question the current social practices prevalent regarding the adopted child.