Abstract

WEIL-HALPERN, Françoise. «Dis! Raconte moi mon histoire» Quel devenir pour les enfants seuls survivants d´une famille victime de l´infection par le VIH? . Aná. Psicológica [online]. 1998, vol.16, n.1, pp.115-125. ISSN 0870-8231.

The eruption of HIV in the pediatric domain transformed the life and the future of a family. The mother, one of the children, sometimes the father, fight desperately against the disease, the discrimination, the isolation, the secrecy, the suffering, the fear of death. Analysing this human earthquake, the author discusses what may become of the non-infected children who find themselves as sole survivors. Through the opposing destinies of a healthy brother and a sister terminally ill with AIDS, the author attempts to show the tragic fate of this family. How do they survive this catastrophe? How is the mourning labour lived, or not lived? What memories do they or may they keep of their mother and their father? What story may they build? Where is guilt? Many questions for which there isn´t always an answer.

Keywords : Orphans; survivors; mourning; oblivion, memory block; family history.

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