Renata Viola Vives is a psychoanalyst for children, adolescents, and adults and a COWAP Latin American representative. She has worked in the field of assisted reproduction for 15 years.

Ana Teresa Vale is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst living and working in Lisbon. Currently COWAP European representative, she is also part of the editorial board of the Portuguese Psychoanalytic Journal.

Foreword

Preface

1.Introduction,

Renata Viola Vives and Ana Teresa Vale

2.Fantasies of origin and the origin of fantasies

Paola Marion, with contributions from Eleonora Di Lucia, Veronika Garms, Selene Mancinelli, and Giovanna Pavanello

3.Illusion, illusional belief, and mourning in infertility

Emanuela Quagliata

4."The empty cradle": Envy, shame and shaming in infertility

Melis Tanik Sivri

5.Reflections on the concept of "Passion for a Child"

Graciela Cardó Soria

6.Emotional aspects of donors

Nancy Tame Ayub

7.Live babies and dead babies: Pregnancy and pregnancy loss in analysis

Ana Teresa Vale

8.As good as it gets: Psychoanalysis as a fertile encounter

Conceição Tavares de Almeida

9.The taboo of egg donation: From fairy tales to myth

Sofia Barandiaran Perez-Yarza

10.Symbolic affiliation in a case of egg donation

Renata Viola Vives

11.Motherhood without pregnancy: Surrogacy, a challenge for femininity and maternal preoccupation

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

12.Surrogacy at the origins of the construction of a family

Katy Bogliatto