Fredouille, Florence

Medically assisted procreation: The stakes between medicine and psychoanalysis - 2020.


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Truth, subject, jouissance: these can all escape the attention of medicine insofar as it is subservient to the discourse of science, especially with regard to medically assisted procreation used in order to respond to the requests of individuals in clinical situations of infertility who want to have a child. These psychic concerns are sometimes embodied in clinical situations that remain enigmatic to medicine as a kind of underside of its scientific discourse. Psychoanalysis may help doctors to better understand the meaning of patients’ requests, determining in specific cases the need for a passage from one discourse to another in their manner of responding to the request.