Overview
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 homoerotic couples who adopt children, or who create them through assisted fertilisation, 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 fertilisation.
Full Product Details
Author: Candida Se Holovko ,
Frances Thomson-Salo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.650kg
ISBN: 9780367104184
ISBN 10: 0367104180
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 14 June 2019
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The publication of this new volume in the Psychoanalysis and Women Series is very much a cause for celebration. It is an excellent collection that brings together a series of articles on topics currently discussed throughout the world, allowing an English-speaking audience to gain access to this intense, creative and vital debate. It is when dialogue not only implies 'conversation' between colleagues, but also a crossing of geographic contexts in order to 'listen' to how psychoanalysis is practiced and thought of in different regions that we realize we are truly on a path towards the broadening of the horizons of psychoanalysis. This journey depends on initiatives such as the one born out of this book. -- (02/24/2017) Bursting out of a carapace of classical and conventional psychoanalysis, this book captures a moment in time when colours shimmer before wings become airborne. Drawn from clinicians across Latin America, the book reflects the unique history and distinctive development of psychoanalytic thinking on this continent as well as current shifts in the social imaginary - altered power relations between men and women and new configurations of sexuality and family formation. Poignant case histories reveal traces of unrepresented social trauma, and the complexity of transgenerational ravages of loss, incest, violence and drugs amongst adolescent mothers, older parents and their infants, street children, infertile couples and gamete donors - all embedded in the diversity of age, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, casta, urbanity and migratory experience across these different societies. -- (02/24/2017) The diverse transformations separating sexuality from reproduction, conceiving children, and creating families in the twenty-first century affect the symbolic system so that psychoanalytic theories have to be reconsidered. This book illuminates groundbreaking work in rapidly changing sexual diversities and parental situations with outstanding psychoanalysts reflecting on new ways of loving, and raising families. -- (02/24/2017)
"""Bursting out of a carapace of classical and conventional psychoanalysis, this book captures a moment in time when colours shimmer before wings become airborne. Drawn from clinicians across Latin America, the book reflects the unique history and distinctive development of psychoanalytic thinking on this continent as well as current shifts in the social imaginary - altered power relations between men and women and new configurations of sexuality and family formation. Poignant case histories reveal traces of unrepresented social trauma, and the complexity of transgenerational ravages of loss, incest, violence and drugs amongst adolescent mothers, older parents and their infants, street children, infertile couples and gamete donors - all embedded in the diversity of age, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, ""casta,"" urbanity and migratory experience across these different societies.""-- (02/24/2017) ""The diverse transformations separating sexuality from reproduction, conceiving children, and creating families in the twenty-first century affect the symbolic system so that psychoanalytic theories have to be reconsidered. This book illuminates groundbreaking work in rapidly changing sexual diversities and parental situations with outstanding psychoanalysts reflecting on new ways of loving, and raising families.""-- (02/24/2017) ""The publication of this new volume in the Psychoanalysis and Women Series is very much a cause for celebration. It is an excellent collection that brings together a series of articles on topics currently discussed throughout the world, allowing an English-speaking audience to gain access to this intense, creative and vital debate. It is when dialogue not only implies 'conversation' between colleagues, but also a crossing of geographic contexts in order to 'listen' to how psychoanalysis is practiced and thought of in different regions that we realize we are truly on a path towards the broadening of the horizons of psychoanalysis. This journey depends on initiatives such as the one born out of this book.""-- (02/24/2017)"
