Novas configurações familiares: uma compreensão a partir das teorias sobre o Édipo e os complexos familiares

Abstract

Contemporary family configurations have been subject of research and discussion in many different areas of the science humanities. Them approach requests a new aspect about the social and psychological determinants on family ties formation, marked by the hegemonic and traditional bourgeois family model: man-woman-children. From the point of view of psychoanalysis, in the twentieth century, Freud, using his hypothesis about the unconscious, thought about the subjective effects of a familiar setting and proposed the Oedipus such as structuring of the human relationships complex, with the desire and culture. Lacan, a contemporary of a drastic change in family conformations, spread the Oedipus's question, adding the perspective of the Name of the Father and positioning maternal and paternal functions beyond gender. In this work, the Freud's theory of Oedipus will be presented and the reading taken by Lacan about this complex, that the question of Oedipus and its role in the constitution of the subject be discussed from the different family settings. Finally, a case of adoption by a homoaffective couple, extracted by doctorate thesis, will be used to illustrate some elements discussed by the psychoanalytic theory.