Um olhar psicanalítico sobre o desenvolvimento emocional de adultos com limitação intelectual moderada: a (in)sustentável leveza entre autonomia e dependência.

Abstract

This paper explores some possible psychoanalytical contributions in understanding the process of identity construction and autonomy of adults with moderate intellectual limitations. This work is based on the idea that this group shows different forms of subjectivity and, like all of us, has its share of encounters and disencounters experienced in life with every kind of feelings about this. Although recognizing the importance of the organic aspects, it searches further than those looking for the emotional aspects which are essential to the construction of autonomy. The basic concept adopted is that the limits and possibilities of the conquest of autonomy vary from person to person and the emotional aspects embedded are crucial in the process. There are aspects of enviromental dependency that are insuperable in those cases, although it doesn’t mean that they are fixed or that they cannot change. Even considering the organic restrictions of the studied cases, the family connections (essentialy represented by mother and son relationship) are very important in understanding and working with those cases.