Full Description
Mothers in the twenty-first century confront us, both in clinical practice and in theory, with fascinating challenges that to some extent subvert the traditional maternal ideal: the motherhood of single women, motherhood in which the mother-child relationship seems minimal (in the case of very busy working mothers), teenage motherhood i
Contents
CHAPTER ONE Motherhood is unending CHAPTER TWO The twenty-first century: what changes?CHAPTER THREE Motherhood in a fertile new world CHAPTER FOUR Artificial pregnancy CHAPTER FIVE The non-maternal psychic space CHAPTER SIX Why do you want to have a child? CHAPTER SEVEN The place of motherhood in primary femininity CHAPTER EIGHT Reconstructing Oedipus? Considerations of the psychosexual development of boys of lesbian parents CHAPTER NINE Maternity and femininity: sharing and splitting in the mother-daughter relationship CHAPTER TEN The parents, the baby, and the high-tech stork CHAPTER ELEVEN Motherhood and work CHAPTER TWELVE The bodies of present-day maternity CHAPTER THIRTEEN New reproductive realities: paradoxes, parameters, and maternal orientations CHAPTER FOURTEEN Parenthood and HIV/AIDS. An investigation of the INPer based on psychoanalytic and gender theory CHAPTER FIFTEEN New methods of conception and the practice of psychoanalysis CHAPTER SIXTEEN The impossible being of the mother.
