ABSTRACT
A desire for immortality is unconsciously at the heart of procreation, at stake in any project to have a child. The desire for immortality is an impossible desire to realise. To perform at the level of fantasy a cloning that would not be possible at the biological level: to clone the one that was never conceived, to clone the one who died before being born, to clone the one who could not be conceived in the previous generation. Cloning liberates procreation from sexuality, in an age when paradoxically sex has become omnipresent. In contrast to this pervasiveness of sex, when it comes to medically assisted reproduction, one talks of everything except sexuality. The clone would not only be another but also mortal. The transgression specific to cloning hangs on the fact that it short-circuits all the differences on which the symbolic world is based, on which symbolic law is founded.
