Relaciones objetales: el abandono imaginario de la madre en tres jóvenes de la ciudad de Villavicencio

Abstract

Imaginary maternal abandonment, within the psychoanalytic theory of object relations, refers to the child's emotional perception and experience, that is, a subjective sensation that the infant experiences of feeling abandoned, even though real physical abandonment has not occurred. According to the object relations perspective, the psychological development of the subject involves the formation of emotional bonds that begin with the mother, as the first attachment figure. He forms an internal representation of his relationship with the primary attachment figure, influencing the child's configuration of relationships with the outside world. When the child experiences imaginary abandonment by his maternal figure, he can develop defensive strategies to protect himself from this sensation, which will be conceptualized in this research through the TRO object relations test, and the information collected in a semi-structured interview. The research approach is qualitative; the paradigmatic approach is interpretive, and the epistemological approach is phenomenological; The design is hermeneutical, and the method is narrative. The hermeneutic analysis allows the identification of the categories proposed for the interpretative development of the narratives of the particular experiences of three young people from the city of Villavicencio, Meta. The coding of information responds to the phenomenon of study based on the categories proposed; This facilitates the relationship between the narratives and the proposed theories, in this way the studied phenomenon is realized.