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Mordas, E. S. Development of Reproductive Function and Woman’s Emotional Experience During Pregnancy

Abstract: The article describes the ideas of a famous psychoanalyst H. Deutsch about reproductive development of a woman and reveals woman’s emotional experience in the process of pregnancy based on D. Kestenberg, T. Benedek and M. Bonaparte and other authors. Pregnancy can be shown as a particular stage in female development accompanied with regressive and progressive tendencies and achievement of a certain social status, new objective relations and another level of gender identity. Pregnancy can be also viewed s the proof of femininity and her body’s functioning. Woman’s experience of pregnancy can provide new opportunities for studying feminine identity and a new access to unconscious conflicts, desires and fantasies.


Keywords:

psychology, pregnancy, femininity, conflict, libido, narcissism, identification, labor, regress, desires.


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