Changing Sexualities and Parental Functions in the Twenty-First Century

Candida Se Holovko is a full member of IPA and the Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Sao Paulo (SBPSP); co-chair of COWAP for Latin America; a liaison member of COWAP-IPA with SBPSP, 2005/2008; Regional Editor for the Latin American Journal 'Caliban' (2012/2014); member in training with the Institute de Psychosomatique Pierre Marty de Paris; coordinator of a psychoanalytical psychosomatics group linked to the Institute of Paris; member of a psychosomatic study group at SBPSP; chief Editor of the Institute's Journal ('Jornal de Psicanalise'), 2009-2010, in which two volumes were dedicated to COWAP themes of Masculinities/Femininities (June and December, 2009). She has published on masculine and feminine psychosexuality, mind-body relations and psychosomatics. Frances Thomson Salo trained with the British Society as a child and adult psychoanalyst, is a Training analyst and past President of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society, Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee of Women in Psychoanalysis, an editorial board member of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis', a consultant infant mental health clinician at the Royal Women's Hospital and child psychotherapist at the Royal Children's Hospital, an Honorary Fellow of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, an Associate Professor on the faculty of the University of Melbourne Graduate Diploma for Infant and Parent Mental Health, and has published on child and infant-parent psychotherapy.

'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 practised and thought of in different regions that we realise 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.'--Virginia Ungar, President-elect of the International Psychoanalytical Association'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.'--Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, foundational Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) Chair; Leader of the Academic Faculty for Psychoanalytic Research, Anna Freud Centre, London'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.'--Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp, COWAP overall Chair'This book brings us closer to the wealth and strength of the thought of Latin American psychoanalysts from different geographies. The diversity of issues addressed by the book are very modern and interesting for contemporary psychoanalysis, just as transformations in parenting, sexual diversity and new ways of conceiving children through reproductive techniques. Crossing the borders of the language and entering into dialogue with different authors, it invites us to the challenge of rethinking theoretical concepts that were developed under the heterosexual nuclear family model of the last century, which are currently in revision. The different voices that run this book's pages put the reader in contact not only with theory but also find clinical material of great wealth. The topics revolve around maternal and paternal functions, neosexuality, intersex, neutral gender, child desire and reproductive techniques, transfer and countertransference, and new social contexts.'Patricia Alkolombre, Full member with training function, Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, and Coordinator of the Eleventh COWAP Latin American Dialogue on 'Parenthoods and Gender: Their influence on subjectivity', Buenos Aires, 2014

• 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