Review of the book Histórias de Captura: investimentos mortíferos nas relações mãe e filha, by Ana Cláudia Santos Meira

Abstract

Debate stories of capture and deadly investments in mother-daughter relationships is to enter into the theme of instinctual investment in initial time of the child's life; time of first impressions and registrations unconscious, in which the infant's Self is extremely vulnerable at origins, dependent on the object. In this inaugural moment, of the first arrangements — of crying and discomfort —, a chord may come, the beginning of a rudimentary melody of communication between the baby and the mother, or he may result in dissonances and crashes — the cradle of trauma without a psychic plot. In capture stories, times will become endlessly mixed; generations will be juxtaposed. What we notice are inseparations, indiscriminations. These deadly investments tell us stories of less eroticized encounters with the maternal object, in which the intensity of destructiveness and helplessness reveal unconscious formations little amalgamated. [...]