BATONI, B. R. Trabalho profissional e trabalho reprodutivo no imaginário coletivo de universitárias [Professional work and reproductive work in the collective imagination of female university students]. 115f. Master’s Dissertation – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas (SP), 2020.
Available on: http://tede.bibliotecadigital.puc-campinas.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/tede/1324
The objective of this study is to investigate the collective imaginary of undergraduate students about women with higher education, professionally active, and having a double duty, from a concrete psychoanalytic psychology perspective. It is justified from current observation and clinical experience that indicates that women experience suffering associated with the fact that they live in a society that burdens women in general with the need to reconcile professional activities with domestic responsibilities, the so-called double duty. It is organized as qualitative research with the psychoanalytic method, articulated around a collective psychological interview of 30 students, mediated by the Thematic Drawing-and-Story Procedure. The research material is constituted of the drawings and stories created by the participants, as well as the transferential narrative of the encounter written by the author. The participants’ creations were psychoanalytically considered, allowing the interpretation of an affective-emotional field denominated ” My money, my comfort and my fun” which is organized around the fantasy that a woman is successful when she is financially independent, lives comfortably and enjoys good quality leisure. The overall frame indicates that participants imagine that the successful women are the ones who achieve financial independence that allows them to enjoy comfort and leisure. Accordingly, having a thoroughly meaningful work, from a personal fulfillment point of view, leads to other aspects such as getting married, and having children are not seen as relevant aspirations. In this way, they seem to escape the double duty by cultivating a marked individualism and the prospect of a life focused on meeting their personal needs.