A construção da intersubjetividade no desenvolvimento da criança cega congênita: possibilidades, impasses e alternativas ao primado da visão.

Abstract

The objective of the dissertation is to study how intersubjective processes occur between blind children and their caregivers, using, as theoretical framework, the concepts of intersubjectivity of Rochat, Trevarthen and Winnicott, although the latter does not use the term explicitly. The aforementioned theory refers the sight as an important sense for the development of the infant in the exchanges that take place in these partner relationships. Initially, some questionings are made about how this attachment will occur without the sight mediating the dyadic relationship. In a second part, it addresses the suffering of parents when a blind child is born in a society that presents itself mainly by the visual sense. In this direction, it is speculated whether the vision is a hegemonic sense. In this way, it is investigated on the development of the congenital blind infant, its impasses, possibilities and alternatives. Finally, we investigate some atypias found in the development of congenital blind children that are compared with autism. The unobserved idiosyncrasies in the intersubjective processes of blind children and their caregivers lead to some peculiar behaviors that may be confused with autism. Bibliographical researches are carried out in primary and secondary sources in Portuguese, English and Spanish.