Conjugalidade nos anos iniciais do casamento: experiências na família de origem

Abstract

Experiences in family of origin impact the trajectory of the subject in various aspects of your future life, including the formation of marriage. The aim of this study was to understand how experiences in the family of origin are reflected in the experience of marital initial years of marriage. More specifically, it aimed to identify how young couples described their marital relationship, how to characterize thefamilies of origin of each spouse, which experiences in the family of origin are considered relevant by the couple to build their relationship and how the couple integrates experiences brought each family. To achieve the proposed objectives, a study of cases with three young couples at first marriage, with a maximum of two years of steady relationship. Findings revealed that the relationship with the family of origin is significant to the experience of the young couple, and the first years of marriage a crucial step in the development of marital identity, from the separation-individuation process in relation to families of origin. The study enabled us to understand the importance of family of origin in the formation of a marital status of couples in perspective, highlighting difficulties in the process of separation-individuation and psychological distress among some family members in relation to the distance promoted by marriage. This dissertation is composed of two articles, one theoretical, transgenerationality about family relationships, based on psychoanalytic and systemic approaches, and other empirical, reporting the results of the study of three young couples on the formation of conjugal from experiences in families of origin.