Abstract
This article approaches the resonances of maternal madness in the subjectivation of a daughter from a case study. We worked with life history and a dialogue was carried out with the subjectivation processes and self-care practices. Narrative interviews were thematically analyzed to organize the results: the resonances of maternal madness in the subjectivation processes; the self-care as a transforming horizon in the subjectivation processes; the work of subjectifying a transgenerational legacy; and the elaboration of the mother as a reference of motherhood. Among the results, the following stand out: the presence of ambivalent affections; the inconsistency of the maternal physical presence and psychic availability; and the development, on the part of the interviewee, of care practices aimed at herself and at the other. A trajectory marked by violence, issues of race, gender and class, social and economic difficulties that intensified the condition of psychic suffering.
Keywords:
madness; parenting; children; subjectivity modes