Abstract

PONTES, Mariana Leme da Silva; CABRERA, Jaqueline Caldamone; FERREIRA, Marcela Casacio  and  VAISBERG, Tânia Maria José Aiello. Insidious adoption and exclusion: the imaginary of teachers on the adopted child. Psicol. estud. [online]. 2008, vol.13, n.3, pp. 495-502. ISSN 1413-7372.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-73722008000300010.

Current research focuses on teachers' imaginary on the adopted child through the use of story-pictures procedures with a theme and through psychoanalytical narratives elaborated after interviews. Material was analyzed according to the psychoanalytical theory of fields, what allows the understanding of two non-conscience psychological: the abandoned child and infertility. Both fields are articulated under the wider psychological field of the radical exclusion of the original personality of the adopted child.

Keywords : Adoption; collective imaginary; teachers.