Processus de maternalité chez les femmes accueillies en centre maternel: De la passivation à la subjectivation

Abstract

From their respective clinical practices, the authors raise questions about the characteristics and especially the deadlocks of motherhood among young single mothers living in a Mother and Child Center. They base their discussion on the now widely-held view that motherhood is a special moment of psychic opening and, therefore, of re-activation of early psychic trauma. They then attempt to show how the concept of "passivation," understood as a disorder in accessing passivity, can prove to be helpful in this clinical context. The authors thus demonstrate how maternity in these women reactivates the psychological deadlocks of early childhood, which left them in "passivation", and also how this particular moment in their lives can allow its development and re-start the process of subjectivation. A clinical example is used to illustrate the authors' point of view. © De Boeck Université. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.