240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that to some extent subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of single women, motherhood in which the mother-child relationship seems minimal (in the case of very busy working mothers), teenage motherhood in which there is no true awareness of the maternal function,... Read more
Foreword -- Motherhood is unending -- The twenty-first century: what changes? -- Motherhood in a fertile new world -- Artificial pregnancy -- The non-maternal psychic space -- Why do you want to have a child? -- The place of motherhood in primary femininity -- Reconstructing Oedipus? Considerations of the psychosexual development of boys of lesbian parents -- Maternity and femininity: sharing and splitting in the mother—daughter relationship -- The parents, the baby, and the high-tech stork -- Motherhood and work -- The bodies of present-day maternity -- New reproductive realities: paradoxes, parameters, and maternal orientations -- Parenthood and HIV/AIDS. An investigation of the INPer based on psychoanalytic and gender theory -- New methods of conception and the practice of psychoanalysis -- The impossible being of the mother
Biography
Mariam Alizade MD, is a psychiatrist and training analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the current overall chair of the IPA Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) and former COWAP Latin-American co-chair. She is the author of a number of titles, including 'Motherhood in the Tweny-First Century'; editor of the IPA-COWAP series and of the collected papers of the COWAP Latin-American Intergenerational Dialogues.
