Volume 66 (2025), Edition 1

In the field of sexuality, major changes are currently being brought about by identity politics movements, trans* phenomena, and queer theory, as well as through the increasing decoupling of sexuality and reproduction. Against this cultural...

The author focuses on aspects of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) which alter primal facts of life that have existed as long as humanity. Scientific innovations undo the once delimiting parameters – of monosexuality, two-person genesis,...

The traditional way of conceiving a child – in the intimacy of a sexual relationship – has existed for more than 2000 years, whereas the method made possible by medical technological intervention is only four decades old. In the case of...

This work seeks to highlight the centrality of the maternal body and bodily pleasure at the moment of birth (and in caring for the child) in the formation of the mother-child relationship and the development of maternal competence. The vulnerability...

This text reflects on the complexity of pregnancy in and with psychoanalytic theory as well as the experiences of a pregnant psychoanalyst and her patient Clara. It addresses the ways in which pregnancy and the procreative or birthing body have not...

This paper describes a patient’s view of and relationship with herself and her internal objects via an extended case report of the patient’s pregnancy. The pregnancy awakened fantasies of an internal object intent on doing harm to the patient....

This paper describes the various causes of postpartum depression. According to the author, the optimal treatment for postpartum depression is the co-therapy of mother and child with the participation of the father within the framework of analytic...