Abstract

VIOLANTE, Maria Lucia Vieira. Wishing for children or longing for motherhood or fatherhood?. J. psicanal. [online]. 2007, vol.40, n.72, pp.153-164. ISSN 0103-5835.

This article intends to highlight the need for a psychoanalytical study (enquiry) about what motivates sterile heterosexual couples or homosexual ones, both biologically or psychically incapable of bearing children, to call for medical or judicial power to fulfill their wish to have children.

Keywords : Wish to have children; Longing for maternity or paternity.

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