A família atual: declínio da função paterna ou declínio dos pais?

Abstract

Considering contemporaneity, we have been watching an increase of episodes, such as violence, which generally indicates a failure in the process of culturalization /socialization of individuals. The family as a nuclear cell of society has been identified as central to the analysis of this situation increasingly evident. In this sense, it is essential to seek an understanding of relational configurations between parents and children, specifically with regard to the exercise of the paternal role. This study aimed to investigate the exercise of the paternal role nowadays in situations where there is a perception by parents of failure or inability in exercising his/her function of socializing children. For that, a bibliography review was fulfilled contemplating the family settings from the end of the Middle Ages until the actual moment; an exam, anchored in Psychoanalysis, of the process of the psychic constitution of the individual in the interior of the family, the central role of the paternal function and that which has been appointed as its decline or weakening. From the empirical point of view the research makes the observation and analysis of three Brazilian families who take part in a reality show from a Brazilian TV, where parents were in significant difficulty in the process of raising/nurturing children. Are listed the following Motivational Factors: Ideal for Parents (belief in an omnipotent model); Emotional Unpreparedness (immaturity, inability to manage conflict, inability to self-evaluation and reflection), Affective Inclination (fear of loss of love, insecurity, guilt, identification/projection, affective ambivalence). Data analysis was performed by means of observation and detailed examination of the parents speeches considering the Method of Analysis (Bardin, 2009). A general consideration of the results states a decline of parents and not the paternal role nowadays.