1st Edition
Sexuality and Procreation in the Age of Biotechnology Desire and its Discontents
Part I: The scandal of sexuality. 1. The return of the repressed 2. The world of yesterday: The end of innocence 3. Psychosexuality: A new form of thought 4. Time in sexuality Part II: Being born in the age of biotechnology 5. The new forms of procreation 6. Sexuality and biotechnology 7. One sexuality or several? 8. The logic of pleasure and the discontent of desire.
Biography
Paola Marion is a Training and Supervising Analyst for the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and a Child and Adolescent Psychoanalyst. She is past Chair of the IPA Outreach Committee for Europe (2011-2013) and past Editor (2017-2021) of the Rivista Italiana di Psicoanalisi. She has published papers in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP), other reviews and collections.
'This is an important book because it illuminates a difficult and controversial development. Paola Marion discusses psychoanalytic theory as it relates to the scandal of sexuality in the light of modern conceptions, addressing the problems posed by the present time, including not only the new forms of procreation but also the cruxes faced by current society in terms of the evolution of sexuality such as the queer and the transgender. These new forms of identity constitute a real challenge for psychoanalysts whose clinical practice compels them to question their own theories.' - Anna Maria Nicolò, Past President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society
'What happens when procreation is no more "only" the combination between a man and a woman, since the "cold third" of technology brings something else and/or someone else into the process which generates a new human being? When other genetic material than the one of the couple (or at least, material treated by a medical figure) enters the freudian primal scene? And what with the new homosexual or sexually polymorphic parenthoods? Paola Marion masterfully investigates these crucial points from an updated and deeply integrative psychoanalytic perspective.' -Stefano Bolognini, Past President of the International Psychoanalytic Association
"This book is indeed controversial but at the same time so open to change yet so grounded in developing theory in a way that usefully facilitates avoiding the perils of a ‘family secret’. It will be welcomed by academics, clinicians and parents alike. I will end with a wise comment from Mo Laufer, past president of the British
Psychoanalytic Society (2014), also quoted: ‘Psychoanalysis cannot escape the age in which it is’ (p. 139), and Marion adds ‘… that it is itself a part of that age’." - Anne Zachary, British Psychoanalytical Society
