El encuentro del niño con el real de la muerte propia : una mirada desde la teoría psicoanalítica lacaniana.

Abstract

The expression "I can die, because I have already lived" refers to the fact that death is accepted in adulthood due to a long life experience, however, it also indicates that for society the child is not part of this equation; a child should not and cannot die because he has not lived. It is as if there were a rule that regulates that this is how it should happen, we have engraved the idea of "you are born, you grow, you reproduce and you die"; but what we want is not always what happens. Death does not take into account age, experiences, consequences, or time. It is precisely this logic that is unthinkable or distressing for the human being, because anyone can die; it is the death of an unlived life that castrates us, envelops us in an endless number of doubts, questions, fear and anguish; thus facing the real of our own death. But what happens when it is the child who faces this real? That is just what this research aims to answer from the experience within a health institution in Guayaquil, Ecuador.