ABSTRACT
The author's poetic writing about psychic life flows as an expression of the functioning mind within the sexed and gendered body, representing vital experiences embedded in theory – rarely so effectively rendered in modern psychoanalysis. She approaches the topic not so much through the novelty of modern gender pluralities, but through the psychic evolution of social bonding, homoeroticism, "parentality" and the fragility of heterosexuality. In joining together the spheres of Mother and Father, her focus on "parentality" involves psychic sensibilities that emanate from the primal scene that evolved haltingly, breaking the preferred social homoerotic bonds of the primal horde. Love in heterosexual terms is thus seen as a late and fragile "achievement" that potentially initiates "the family". It is "the problem of problems". Now enter the fractures of modern life with procreation, medicalized and technichized, and often separated from heterosexual conjugation.
