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Sexuality and Procreation in the Age of Biotechnology: Desire and its Discontents

Author(s) : Paola Marion

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'This is an important book because it illuminates a difficult and controversial development. Paola Marion discusses psychoanalytic theory as it relates to the scandal of sexuality in the light of modern conceptions, addressing the problems posed by the present time, including not only the new forms of procreation but also the cruxes faced by current society in terms of the evolution of sexuality such as the queer and the transgender. These new forms of identity constitute a real challenge for psychoanalysts whose clinical practice compels them to question their own theories.' - Anna Maria Nicolo, Past President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society.

'What happens when procreation is no more "only" the combination between a man and a woman, since the "cold third" of technology brings something else and/or someone else into the process which generates a new human being? When other genetic material than the one of the couple (or at least, material treated by a medical figure) enters the freudian primal scene? And what with the new homosexual or sexually polymorphic parenthoods? Paola Marion masterfully investigates these crucial points from an updated and deeply integrative psychoanalytic perspective.' -Stefano Bolognini, Past President of the International Psychoanalytic Association.