A adoção homoafetiva no Brasil: perspectivas da Psicanálise Winnicottiana

Abstract

This work aimed to explore the scenario of gay adoptions in Brazil through the lens of Psychoanalytic theory, with an emphasis on the theory of D.W Winnicott (1896-1971). The text starts with a journey through Legal Psychology as a field, as well as its psychoanalytic influences. Then, the outlooks of new forms of Family in the 21st century are shown, as well as the social and legal aspects of heterossexual and same-sex adoption. Moreover, the main notions about homosexuality in Psychology and Psychoanalysis are presented. About the new paradigm brought by Winnicott to Psychoanalysis, the perspective based on Kuhn’s Theory of Scientific Revolutions is of great utility to the comprehension of the emergency process of a new Psychoanalysis. Concerning homosexuality and same-sex adoption, the range of Winnicott’s theories point to a positive vision of the subject, by not having, in this author’s perspective, the view of homosexuality as an illness, nor the inability for same-sex parents to practice parental functions.