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Donor Conception for Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on New Ways of Conceiving the Family

Editor : Katherine Fine

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‘Infertility strikes indiscriminately, severely undermining one’s sense of continuity and “generative identity”. Fundamental axioms are undermined by reproductive innovations, such as asexual fertilisation. A couple’s trust in their own baby-making capacities is shattered when their exclusive intimacy is invaded by fertility experts’ intrusive investigations and treatments. Further complex emotions arise if the womb must offer hospitality to a stranger’s embryo or gametes – an act that will divert the family’s genetic line forever. This book breaks the silence surrounding donor conception, revealing some of the unconscious desires, psychological strategies and dilemmas experienced by members of the “DC kinship triad” (donors/recipients/offspring) when reproductive technologies provide new hope, yet challenge our previously held cherished beliefs about family formation.’
— Professor Joan Raphael-Leff, UCL/Anna Freud Centre, London, and author of The Dark Side of the Womb