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Changing Sexualities Changing Parental Functions. 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.nbsp
List of contents
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
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Candida Se Holovko
Summary
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.
