Ressignificando o processo de adoção: encontros e desencontros

Abstract

This study has proposed an analysis about adoption and return, starting from the speech of four families and their respective children who experienced the encounter and mis-match in adoption. The main purpose of this dissertation was to comprehend the process of adoptive linkage within the domestic dynamics, detailing the indicators that contributed to the filiation bond construction and indicators that were unfavorable to the filial encounter. The theorist subsidy of the systematic structure has been utilized along with the bond theory of Pichon-Rivière (1986), which made it viable to comprehend the adoption based on the analysis of the internal and external bonds of the families and their respective adopted children. The qualitative methodology of González-Rey (2002) has been considered for this study, which made it possible to interact in full form with the subjects researched, making the results more consistent. The adopted children's audition was done by drawing, in which such instrument served as a resource of expressiveness to unveil the adoption phenomenon. This made it viable to evaluate how adoption and return have been impacting these children's lives. It was possible to find that the return has connected itself to the lack of professional support to the families and to their respective children before, during and after the adoption process, the lack of support from the extended families and the absence of open dialog between the adopter family and their respective adopted children. Other factors such as the conflicts experienced with the exchange of the biological origin increased the child's undue appropriation fantasies, return's counterpart, enabling it to presume that the altruism and kindness feelings lived by the adopters were defending formations against these conflicts.