FERNANDES, Marly A. (1988) – Fantasias inconscientes de primigestas através do Procedimento de Desenhos-Estórias [Unconscious fantasies of primiparas through the Drawing-and-Story Procedure]. Master’s Dissertation. Campinas (SP). Instituto de Psicologia da PUCCAMP, 130 pp.
The objective of this work was to investigate unconscious fantasies of women that are pregnant for the first time. Pregnancy is considered as an extremely important moment in a woman’s life that can give her the opportunity of reaching new levels of integration and development. An exploratory research was conducted, with 15 pregnant women in their fourth month of pregnancy. We chose this period because it is the moment when pregnancy becomes obvious, and the perception of fetal movement, characteristic of this period, is felt for the first time as a concrete reality. The development of the research was based mainly on a meeting when we had a semi-guided interview and the Drawing-and-Story Procedure (D-E) was applied. The results reveal the presence of both destructive and persecuting fantasies and constructive and loving fantasies in relation to the fetus. The loving fantasies expressed themselves as a need to make the individuality stronger, searching for harmony and equilibrium in the personality, search for spiritual factors, connection with family roots, evocation of childhood in relation to the baby and the insertion of the baby in the life history of the couple. The destructive and persecutory fantasies were characterized by the anguish of the primiparas of being overtaken by feelings of desolation and of death. In this case, her own death and the death of the baby, is what appears as a threatening object. There are fears of not being capable of being a mother, and of not knowing how to raise the child, of being a bad mother, etc. Regressions, anxiety for the loss of childhood and perplexity towards the unknown were also verified. Results indicate that the Drawing-and-Story Procedure, used as an auxiliary technique in the psychological investigation of pregnant women, is of great value because it offers a series of advantages: it is a well accepted tool, brings up unconscious contents, with a low level of resistance behavior.