1st Edition

Changing Sexualities and Parental Functions in the Twenty-First Century Changing Sexualities, Changing Parental Functions

By Candida Se Holovko Copyright 2017
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

Recent societal changes have challenged long-established concepts in psychoanalysis, including the Oedipus complex, parental functions, and male and female psychosexuality. 'Postmodern families', based on sexual and emotional exchanges independent of gender, now include homoerotic couples who adopt children, or who create them through assisted fertilisation, as well as single parent families and... Read more
Series Editor’s Foreword , Introduction , Revisiting Parental Functions , The decline of the father: paternal function or third-party function? , When a symbolic lack of parental functions produces pain without a subject , The dynamics between “the internal bad mother” and the construction of the “bad child” , Secrets and revelations: vicissitudes of the maternal function , Bereaved families after neonatal death , Adolescent maternity in critical social context: a perspective from the psychoanalyst’s hilflosigkeit , New Family Configurations , Vicissitudes of the desire to have a child in contemporary parenthoods: reproductive techniques and the new origins , The role of the donor in assisted fertilisation treatments , Parenthood for same-sex couples and gender definition in children , Are we pregnant? Fantasies displayed in the embryo transfer process , Sexual Diversity , Two in one: parenthood and gender in a case of intersexuality , The neuter gender and the setting up of psychosexuality , Countertransference in psychodynamic psychotherapy of gender identity disorder patients , Neo-sexualities and the binary model debate 1 , Tribute to Mariam Alizade , The liberation of parenthood in the twenty-first century , Alcira Mariam Alizade

Biography

Candida Se Holovko