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...