O momento do término da análise na clínica infantil

Abstract

In my dissertation I intend to investigate, in the light of Melanie Klein's ideas, what occurs in child analysis when it is close to terminating. I start by observing that the theme, in itself, triggers intense emotions, which then become part of the child's psychism, as well as the analyst, the parents, and of those who take the risk to examine the theme in depth.

The word terminate alone insinuates loss, suggests separation, evokes mourning. I try to show, trought the psychoanalytic method, how the power of these archaic anxieties is released and comes forth in the analytic process, needing to be clearly expressed, aprehended and elaborated on, so the child may end the analytic work satisfactorily. I discuss the quality of this loss, that is different from the deal~ loss, emphasizing the singularity of the separation. When I refer to terminate, I mean the termination of the fourmal encounter between patient and analyst, since the process of psychic growth is interminable, due to the introjection of the analytical object at the end of analysis, which keeps up the intra-psychic dialogue and qualifies the person to be able to face his own challenges and his own solitude.

I go firstly to Freud for the precursory fundamentals on the ideas~ regarding analytic termination, placing them face to face whith child analysis and'~ then proceed to track down the theme in others authors. ;

Thereby I aim to reach new issues and reflections that may bring forth more light and interest for child analysis which, as we shall see, was a source of inexaustible discoveries for Klein and continues being so for us