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Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction and Psychoanalysis

Editor : Renata Viola Vives, Editor : Ana Teresa Vale

Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword

1. Introduction
Renata Viola Vives and Ana Teresa Vale

2. Fantasies of Origin and the Origin of Fantasies
Paola Marion, with contribution by Eleonora Di Lucia, Veronika Garms, Selene Mancinelli and Giovanna Pavanello

3. Illusion, Illusional Belief and Mourning in Infertility
Emanuela Quagliata

4. The Empty Cradle: Envy, Shame and Shaming in Infertility
Melis Tanik Sivri

5. Reflections on the Concept of “Passion for a Child”
Graciela Cardó Soria

6. Emotional Aspects of Donors
Nancy Tame Ayub

7. Live Babies and Dead Babies – Pregnancy and Pregnancy Loss in Analysis
Ana Teresa Vale

8. As Good as It Gets: Psychoanalysis as a Fertile Encounter
Conceição Tavares de Almeida

9. The Taboo of Egg Donation: From Fairy Tales to Myth
Sofia Barandiaran

10. Symbolic Affiliation in a Case of Egg Donation
Renata Viola Vives

11. Motherhood Without Pregnancy: Surrogacy, a Challenge for Femininity and Maternal Preoccupation
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

12. Surrogacy, at the Origins of the Construction of a Family
Katy Bogliatto