Main description:

** This book provides proposes an entirely new term: the passion for child, which was recently included in the Argentinean Dictionary of Psychoanalysis.
** This book provides a theoretical and clinical approach to the desire to have a child, based on the author's own clinical observation.
** This book includes an analysis of the novel Yerma (Federico Garcia Lorca) from the author's idea of 'the passion for the child'. ** It also offers a cutting edge approach to maternities/paternities and their relationship with reproductive techniques and new origins of birth.

Contents:

Introduction Part I: About the Desire and the Passion for a Child 1. Revisiting Desire for a Child 2. When Desire for a Child becomes Passion for a Child Part II: Techniques in the Light of Psychoanalysis 3. Into Psychoanalytic Clinical Work 4. Psychoanalysis and Reproductive Techniques Part III: Historical (In) Fertility 5. First Conceptions 6. Fertility Myths and Rituals