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Oedipal Experiences in Same-Sex Families

Author(s) : Yifat Eitan-Persico

Table of Contents

Introduction
A bridge between two islands: psychoanalytic thinking and the research field

Part One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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