La familia contemporánea y el lugar del niño : un estudio psicoanalítico sobre las configuraciones vinculares actuales y sus efectos en la subjetividad.

Abstract

Transformations in couple relationships and contemporary family configurations affect the subjective constitution of the child and the emergence of childhood symptoms from a psychoanalytic perspective. This research analyzes the place of the child in the contemporary family, considering the fragility of the love bond, the reconfiguration of parental functions, and the pluralization of ways of forming a family. Based on a qualitative methodology, supported by theoretical review and semi-structured interviews with psychoanalysts, the study finds that the formal structure of the family does not, by itself, determine child subjectivity. What is decisive is the way in which each relational configuration sustains symbolic functions of transmission, mediation, limit, separation, and non-anonymous desire. The research shows that, when these functions are weakened, the child may be positioned as an object of jouissance, narcissistic support, mediator of parental conflict, or symptom of family malaise. Consequently, the study proposes a non-normative clinical reading of the contemporary family and of childhood suffering.