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The author tries to identify psychic stakes involved in the single-parent request for adoption. She emphazises how, in this specific context, self-begetting fantasy and psychic transmission question are particularly called together. Through a clinical example about a HIV positive man wanting to adopt alone, the author points out the risk of unconscious psychic single-parenthood organised for narcissistic profits and allotting the child a lifebuoy role. The statement is finishing with the idea that, beyond the single life, the symbolic reference to the founder couple is fundamental for organizing an adoptive parenthood.