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Vol. 45 No. 1 (2025)
Revista Portuguesa de Psicanálise

Auditório

The frozen feminine: The Body and the Vicissitudes of the Infantile in Medically Assisted Procreation

https://doi.org/10.51356/rpp.451a4

Published 2025-06-30

  • Katy Bogliatto

Abstract

In this paper illustrated with a clinical vignette, the author aims to unfold some facets of the complexity of the psychic work of symbolization experienced by each woman undergoing assisted reproduction, as the body is subject to internal and external stimulations. The author proposes to listen to the somatosensory elements as a field of exploration in search of representations and eventually enabling conflicts and fantasies to be questioned and linked with the vicissitudes of the archaic infantile that lies in every one of us, understood as an unconscious field lacking in representations containing the most undifferentiated zone between self and object, between soma and psyche as well as the vestiges of the primary traces between mother and child.

Keywords

medically assisted reproduction, symbolization, infantile sexual theories, somato-psychic elements

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Author Biography

Katy Bogliatto

Pedopsiquiatra, Analista Didata da Sociedade Psicanalítica Belga, Vice-Presidente Eleita da Associação Psicanalítica Internacional, membro de ligação COWAP.

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