Abstract
Objective: This article aimed to investigate the psychological aspects that pervade suicidal ideation in pregnant women and postpartum women. Method: The procedure consists of brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy, establishing the therapeutic focus and the brevity of the treatment. Through interpretation, it was intended to lead the patient to have a better perception of their history and the respective defensive or psychodynamic mechanisms that prevail in their unconscious. The study was conducted at the State Public Hospital of São Paulo, with the approval of the ethics committee. Results: The analysis of the case of suicidal ideation in gestation was thought in the light of Freudian psychoanalysis. Conclusion: In view of the clinical case presented, it is evident that repeated and unprocessed mourning brought intense hopelessness and disinvestment of life. The losses are perceived as rejections. Suicide is increasingly a social phenomenon that has relevance in all levels of society, works that approach the subject serve as means to know better the intricacies of suicidal ideation.