A Child’s Home and Children’s Homes
Where « you » and « the roof over your head » Are Looked at more Closely
Pages 83 to 96
Cite this article
- DE TOGNI, Caroline
- and GONÇALVES, Philippe,
- De Togni, Caroline.
- et al.
- De Togni, C.
- and Gonçalves, P.
https://doi.org/10.3917/ep.072.0083
Cite this article
- De Togni, C.
- and Gonçalves, P.
- De Togni, Caroline.
- et al.
- DE TOGNI, Caroline
- and GONÇALVES, Philippe,
https://doi.org/10.3917/ep.072.0083
What does living at home and being in a Children’s Home really mean? These familiar terms are revisited in order to encourage the Child Welfare professional to rethink his own representations from the perspective of a child’s. The institution and the family constitute groups whose interlocking relations multiply the range of possible actions and crisscrossing identifications. Care placement and fostering in children’s homes are protective educative measures which entail painful separation, but which also work towards rethinking absence, reformulating what cannot be heard and recreating links. Intersubjectivity enables a new meeting, one where the subject can at last feel at home with himself.
Keywords
- children’s home
- putting in care
- separation
- fracture
- intersubjectivity
Publisher keywords: children’s home, fracture, intersubjectivity, putting in care, separation