Changing Sexualities and Parental Functions in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781782204947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 266 str.

Candida Se Holovko; Frances Thomson-Salo

Opis

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 homosexual couples who adopt children, or who create them through assisted fertilization, as well as single parent families and blended families.

A number of highly-renowned Latin American psychoanalysts have drawn attention to the urgency of revising theoretical and clinical concepts in the light of these new scenarios. In this book, they open up ideas which cover familiar territory of current concerns in psychoanalytic work, as well as other little-explored areas, with the emphasis on evolving sexualities and new experiences of parenthood.

The first section revisits psychoanalytic theories, particularly parental functions in the area of sexuality and gender. The following section discusses new family configurations, and vicissitudes of the desire to have a child in men and women, with the authors presenting some psychic consequences for parents in therapy who have turned to assisted fertilization. The third section, on sexual diversity and the neosexualities, includes the topics of intersexuality, the fantasy of neuter gender, countertransference in psychotherapy with gender identity disorders patients, and same-sex parenting. The final section pays tribute to Mariam Alizade, overall chair of COWAP from 2001-2005. As our psychoanalytic thinking and practice becomes more complex and sophisticated, our understanding of the analytic process is correspondingly deepened.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Candida Se Holovko