Habitar otro tiempo: maternidades, cuidado y temporalidades en conflicto

Rocío Paricio-del-Castillo

doi:10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2026.8.1.547

Authors

Rocío Paricio-del-Castillo Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro (ES) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2734-0577

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2026.8.1.547

Keywords:

Motherhood, social acceleration, care, ethics of care, temporality

Abstract

Contemporary societies are increasingly organized around regimes defined by acceleration, productivity, and constant availability. All of which clash with the time required to sustain life. This article analyzes maternal temporalities as a subjective and relational experience capable of critically challenging this social organization of time. Using a conceptual and hermeneutic approach grounded in the phenomenology of the body, feminist care theory, and temporal studies, it maps the temporal regimes that permeate motherhood and outlines several analytical figures of temporal reorganization: suspension, circularity, simultaneity, eternity, desynchronization, overflow, and quantification. It argues that motherhood reveals tensions between bodily, relational, and institutional rhythms, offering a framework for an ethics of time based on vulnerability, interdependence, and the recognition of care.

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Author Biography

Rocío Paricio-del-Castillo, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro

Graduated with honors in Medicine and Surgery from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, receiving the Extraordinary Award upon graduation; specialist in Adult Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She holds a Ph.D. from the International Doctoral School at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, where she graduated with the highest honors (cum laude) and earned the Extraordinary Doctoral Award for her dissertation Human Rights and Mental Health: Special Protection for Motherhood and Childhood. She has also completed extensive postgraduate coursework in child healthcare and neurodevelopment, alongside comprehensive psychotherapeutic training in systemic therapy, attachment, trauma, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).

She currently serves as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda in Madrid, where she leads the perinatal mental health program. She combines clinical practice with teaching and research focused on child development and psychological trauma, paying particular attention to perinatal mental health, a field in which she has published widely in scientific journals.

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