Heranças invisíveis: transmissão psíquica e fragmentação do eu na psicose

Abstract

This undergraduate thesis addresses psychosis and its possible relations with psychic transmission, specifically within the mother-daughter relationship. Developed from a psychoanalytic perspective, it seeks to understand how the fragmentation of personality observed in psychosis may be linked to the effects of transgenerational psychic transmission. The general objective was to discuss the possible relationships between these phenomena, while the specific objectives were: to characterize psychosis, to conceptualize transgenerational psychic transmission from a psychoanalytic standpoint, and to present the mother-daughter relationship based on the fundamentals of psychoanalytic theory. The literature review encompassed classical psychoanalytic authors, such as Freud and Lacan, as well as contemporary scholars like Kaës, Abraham, and Torok, who have dedicated their research to psychic transmission and family dynamics. The methodological approach was qualitative, with a theoretical's bibliographic design and an exploratory analysis of a cultural artifact - the film Black Swan (2010), directed by Darren Aronofsky. In the discussion, the first category explored the symbiotic relationship and maternal bond, revealing a fusional and invasive dynamic that hinders symbolic separation and keeps the daughter in an infantilized position. The second category examined personality fragmentation in psychosis, understood as the result of a failure in the symbolization of lack and the absence of the paternal function, which leads to a loss of ego anchoring and to the blurring of boundaries between reality and delusion. Finally, the third category addressed psychic transmission, demonstrating how the unelaborated desires, frustrations, and ideals of one generation may be unconsciously imposed upon the next, becoming mandates that confine the subject within a familial narrative. The final considerations indicate that when the mother-daughter relationship is permeated by invasion and the absence of a mediating third, unrepresented contents are perpetuated, compromising the subject's psychic constitution. Thus, it is understood that psychic transmission, when operating intrusively and without symbolic elaboration, may reduce the psyche to fragmentation, as the subject becomes the depository of an inherited psychic burden that prevents the development of an autonomous identity. This study therefore contributes to a broader understanding of the effects of transgenerational transmission on the structuring of the ego and encourages reflection on the possibilities of symbolically elaborating these inherited legacies within the clinical and theoretical field of psychoanalysis. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]