a condenação à absolvição: o funcionamento da culpa no discurso da maternidade

Abstract

Maternity, surrounded by myths and expectations, is influenced by discourses that affect the formation of the identification of the place "Mother". The present research delved into the field of French Discourse Analysis, with Pêcheux (1990; 1997; 2014; 2015; 2020) as the main theorist, whose concepts join studies by Hilferding (1996), Badinter (1985; 2011), Del Priore (1990), Fidalgo (2003) and Iaconelli (2020; 2023) in the elaboration of the analyses of the discursive sequences that mobilized the functioning of guilt as a signifier that stands out in the discursive formation of motherhood. To this end, the corpus of work was organized based on interviews with mothers of children undergoing clinical treatment, and the study highlights that their utterances allowed them to abandon the empirical mother and analyze the Mother. In other words, mothers are interpellated by these discourses, assuming a subject position that transcends their individual experience and echoes the socially and historically referenced memory. The analyses showed that mothers are inserted in an ideological system that defines how they should behave, what they can or cannot say, and how they identify and are identified by the other, taking into account that both those who occupy the place-Mother and those who speak about this place are referenced by the discursive formation that sustains what can and what should be said. A discursive formation that is touched by that of Christian religion, with which the analyst encountered and that made it possible to sustain the thesis that guilt is constitutive of the discursive formation of motherhood.