Desire and Passion for a Child - Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Reproductive Techniques

In this book, Patricia Alkolombre explores the desire to have a child from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, and covers the questions raised in the face of new resources offered by reproductive medicine.

List of contents

Introduction PART I About the desire and the passion for a child 1 Revisiting desire for a child 2 When desire for a child becomes passion for a child PART II Techniques in the light of psychoanalysis 3 Into psychoanalytic clinical work 4 Psychoanalysis and reproductive techniques PART III Historical (in) fertility 5 First conceptions 6 Fertility myths and rituals

About the author

Patricia Alkolombre, PhD, is Overall Chair of the IPA Committee on Woman and Psychoanalysis. She is Training and Supervising Analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association (APA), a Postgraduate Professor at the APA-UBA master's degree and at other institutions in Argentina and abroad. She has written on infertility, the female body, femininity, masculinity, parenthood, psychoanalysis, and gender. She is a co-author of Changing Sexualities and Parental Function in the Twenty First Century (Karnac, 2017) and Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today: Femininity, Desire, and Agency (Routledge, 2022).

Summary

In this book, Patricia Alkolombre explores the desire to have a child from a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective, and covers the questions raised in the face of new resources offered by reproductive medicine.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Alkolombre, Patricia (Argentine Psychoanalytic Ass Alkolombre
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032284064
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3228406-4
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Psychoanalysis and Women Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, MEDICAL / Reproductive Medicine & Technology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psychotherapy, Reproductive Medicine, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis