A união faz a força: expressões do mito familiar em famílias negras das camadas médias - São Paulo, século XXI

Abstract

This work aims to identify the familiar myths in contemporary black families and understand them on the assumption that the fantasies, beliefs and values that they embrace are crossed by historical, social, political and religious issues, which are capable of influencing the family dynamics and of assigning meanings to past and present stories of family relationships that shape their unconscious structures. Considering both the unconscious and subjective aspects of these families, we tried to verify changes in family myths as they appear less favorably as family secrets interwoven, in turn, into socio-political secrets from social context, whose silencing resulted in entanglement the intersubjectivity of black families, since they are psychically transmitted by generations. The vicissitudes of the familiar myth refer to variations that psychic transmission acquires when they are inter and/or transgenerational. When the type of changes are structural, like ethnicity, or alienating, as trauma, they result in grief and non-said. Therefore, this work aims mainly to discuss and to reflect about the subjectivity of black families through the clinical psychoanalytic listening approach, trying to shed light of their specific characteristics, on their familiar myths organization and psychological effects of the traumatic marks upon their families social history