Agora (Brazil)
Volume 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 71-83

Motherhood in exile. Migration as a stimulus to fertility [Maternidade do exílio. Quando o deslocamento favorece a fertilidade] (Article) (Open Access)

Pestre E. , Baptista F.
  • a Universidade Paris- Diderot, EAD 3522 CRPMS (Centro de Pesquisas em Medicina, Psicanálise e Sociedade), Paris Sorbonne Cité, Brazil
  • b UFMG, Université Paris 8 Saint-Dennis, Brazil, Université Paris Diderot Sorbonne Cité, Brazil

Abstract

Based on a psychoanalytic research project carried out at a maternity hospital in Buenos Aires (Argentina), this paper explores the effects of migration on the subjectivity of pregnant women living in condition of precariousness. The clinical data shows that in these women, the movement initiated by migration provokes a subjective and drive-related reorganisation, which may function as a new stimulus in the encounter with sexuality and procreation.

Author Keywords

Drive Migration Fertility Pregnancy

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84904468606&doi=10.1590%2fS1516-14982014000100005&partnerID=40&md5=7604c52c87ebc588d07a83ae16ae7743
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-14982014000100005
ISSN: 15161498
Original Language: Portuguese