Abstract

FIORINI, Letícia Glocer. Subjectivities in transition. Contemporary parenthood: diversity and difference.Translated byJulia Tomasini. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2017, vol.51, n.2, pp. 91-102. ISSN 0486-641X.

Contemporary societies, especially in the Western world, have experienced important changes regarding norms that rule the organization of social bonds. These changes are expressed in what the author has called subjectivities in transition. We may find different types of families: one-parent families, reconstituted families, and/or families constituted by couples who adopt other expressions of sexuality and gender which are not according to the laws in force. This paper studies their impact in contemporary parenthood. In her paper, the author takes into consideration the impact of biotechnology through different sort of assisted fertilization, particularly the use of a third person and how it may affect the parenthood. She also writes a reflection on the impacts of the techno-cyberculture in the development of subjectivity in this space which has arisen between human and machine. The author's purpose is to distinguish diversity from difference, and revising the subjective and intersubjective apparatus as well. This apparatus generates a symbolic difference and results in recognizing alterity. The author suggests that the limitations of the binary thinking be overcome in order to produce a triadic thinking. The author revises notions of child's desire and the paternal function in the light of contemporary parenthoods, which may be conventional or not. She defends the idea that difference, as category in an ample sense, may be included.

Keywords : contemporary parenthood; child's desire; paternal function; biotechnological culture; cyborg; diversity and difference.

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