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The present father: discovering the fatherhood in a contemporary family

This study focus on the real father figure present in his bodily and affectiveness, who has to face a subjective demand that came from the requirements of reviewing his role in the contemporary world. We looked for the paternity that refuge and lives together with the transformation process which transit through news and archaic values. The access to this knowledge was feasible through a clinical research method with the psychoanalysis support. Without submitting the participants into a psychoanalytical treatment, this study applies the psychoanalysis concepts on the interpretation of a subjective and social dimension phenomenon. We adopted the interview practice as the main tool and the qualitative analysis as strategy, in order to permit relevance to the interviewed speaking and extract from it the significant datum to our indagations.

paternity; dynamics family; development psychic-affective


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