Yifat Eitan-Persico

Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book updates the Oedipus Complex for a contemporary audience in the light of social and cultural changes and explores its implications for psychoanalytic treatment and our understanding of queer families.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9781032663319
• ISBN-10: 1032663316
• Artikelnr.: 69483724

Autorenporträt

Dr. Yifat Eitan-Persico is a practicing clinical psychologist and a candidate in the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She is a translator and editor of psychoanalytic writings, and a lecturer in post-graduate psychoanalytic programs. The Hebrew edition of this book was awarded the prestigious Bahat Prize for the best academic book, 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A bridge between two islands: psychoanalytic thinking and the
research field Part I: What does Oedipal development have to do with the
parents' sex, anyway? 1."I want to marry you, Mommy": On Oedipal
configurations in same-sex families 2.Oedipal Configurations: Mutual
illumination of theory and research findings Part II: What does genetics
have to do with kinship, anyway? 3. On biological affiliation and kinship
4. A new hierarchy: Asymmetry between the birth mother and social mother in
lesbian couples 5. Back to the closet: The issue of the child's genetic
origin among gay fathers 6. The dual role of the extended family. 7. The
power of interpellation: kinship conceptualization among same-sex parents
and their children Part III: What does procreation have to do with parental
coitus, anyway? 8. Between longing and dread: representations of gamete
donors and surogates in the children's inner-worlds. 9. Gamete donation in
light of the primal scene: The parental challenge of integrating the
donor's imago Part IV: Afterword 10. Oedipus for Everyone? Biases in the
Oedipal model: their roots and how to overcome them 11. How to work with
same-sex families? Coda. The Kids Are All Right: a psychoanalytic reading
in Lisa Cholodenko's film. Appendix A Appendix B.