Médecine de la Reproduction
MENUPsychological aspects in oocyte donation Volume 13, issue 3, Juillet 2011
Author
Service de médecine de la reproduction,
Hôpital Tenon,
APHP,
37 rue Tournefort,
75005 Paris,
France
- Key words: psychological mechanisms, egg donation, psychoanalysis and prediction, infantile sexual theories, construction of female identity, psychological effects of infertility
- DOI : 10.1684/mte.2011.0366
- Page(s) : 187-93
- Published in: 2011
The egg donation, illustrated by a clinical vignette and placed in the medicalization of reproduction addresses the separation of genetic and gestational parentage in the report to the status of “real” mother. Infantile sexual theories of prospective parents would find it revised ? The construction of female identity seems to be repaired by the possible access to motherhood through pregnancy. As for the putative child, it would seem that psychoanalysis cannot provide a unique destiny before conception for those born using this technique. Oocyte donation is associated to a high degree of technical sophistication with an archaic gesture that is the gift from woman to woman, even remaining anonymous.