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The results in Table 5 show that χ 2 cal = 31.31 > χ 2 lu = 24.99 at the threshold p =.05. The link is therefore significantly positive and of average intensity ( C = 0.33) at this threshold. We conclude that there is a link between the representations of deafness and relational difficulties. • The child's experience of disability and representations of deafness Table 6: Relationship between representations of deafness and emotional experience Experience of the child's disability Representations of deafness Act of witchcraft Persecution Divine Will Curse Organic conception Punishment Anxiety about the child's future 07 (5.51 %) 25 (18.69 %) 04 (3.14 %) 01 (0.79 %) 12 (9.45 %) 02 (3.15 %) Pity 12 (9.45 %) 05 (3.94 %) 08 (6.30 %) 01 (0.79 %) 01 (0.79 %) 02 (3.15 %) Shame 06 (4.72 %) 10 (7.84 %) 01 (0.79 %) 09 (7.10 %) 06 (4.72 %) 11 (8.66 %) Guilt 05 (3.94 %) 10 (7.84 %) 02 (3.15 %) 02 (3.15 %) 06 (4.72 %) 01 (0.79 %) Narcissistic injury 15 (11.81 %) 02 (3.15 %) 10 (7.84 %) 03 (2.36 %) 01 (0.79 %) 03 (2.36 %) Denial of diagnosis 10 (7.84 %) 15 (11.81 %) 01 (0.79 %) 02 (3.15 %) 02 (3.15 %) 02 (3.15 %) Powerless 12 (9.45 %) 01 (0.79 %) 05 (3.94 %) 01 (0.79 %) 10 (7.84 %) 01 (0.79 %) Insecurity 03 (2.36 %) 06 (4.72 %) 04 (3.14 %) 01 (0.79 %) 01 (0.79 %) 01 (0.79 %) Devaluation 12 (9.45 %) 02 (3.15 %) 02 (3.15 %) 02 (3.15 %) 02 (3.15 %) (3.14 %) Fits of weeping 05 (3.94 %) 01 (0.79 %) 02 (3.15 %) 02 (3.15 %) 01 (0.79 %) 02 (3.15 %) χ 2 cor = 98.28 > χ 2 lu = 61.65 C = 0.49 ddl = 45 DS ( p < .05) The results in the table above show that χ 2 cal = 98.28 > χ 2 lu = 61.65 au p =.05. The relationship is therefore significant at this threshold. Moreover, the calculated contingency coefficient C = 0.49. This suggests that there is an average relationship between the representations made by the hearing parents of deafness and their experience of the child's disability. IV. I nterpretations A child in general and more particularly an African child is a trigger for upheavals in the group from which he or she was born. By his/her arrival, the gives his/her parents new status as father and mother. The child’s presence is thought of in the continuity of a lineage to which he/she must participate in one way or another in their recognition in the social landscape. Before his/her birth, the parents project on their child something of the image that one has of oneself, that one hopes to achieve or they expect from the child a true restoration of themselves. This image of the constructed child, idealizes itself in the conscience of the parents. Having the desire that their child be the fulfillment of their dreams, they give themselves, especially the mothers, to a whole series of manifestations which can be manifestations of the type of this construction in time, or to other elements, a meaning insofar as by looking at the child, they hallucinate these desires. However, the announcement of the deafness compromises all their desires (fantasies). The parents see a part of themselves removed. Referring to the psychoanalytical or psychodynamic theory of Freud, more precisely of his second topical, the "Overself" is the internalization of the law, the moral conscience; it says what is good and what is bad. It is also the ideal of the "Ego", the model of the character to become. Indeed, the hearing parents of a deaf child live in a society, in a social group where cultural norms have been internalized. This integration of cultural norms leads them to define a normality in relation to themselves. That is to say, they consider themselves as a model and it becomes difficult to find reference points when faced with others who are considered different. In order to enter into a true relationship, one in which we do not deal with a body but with a person, the other person must exist for me Volume XXII Issue XI Version I 6 ( ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - Year 2022 © 2022 Global Journals A Social Representations of Deafness and Psychological Suffering in Parents of Deaf Children