ABSTRACT

In considering families, which include same-sex parents, J. McDougall notes: What is most important is not homoparentality, but the capacity of being a parent. The psychic change proposed by means of our clinical actions intercedes in the conflict and suffering noticed between those subjects. Interpretation is one of the main tools that help us in addressing the type of communication that is taking place between the members of a family. The family needs to be thought of as a group of egos that build up a field of unconscious manifestations of conflict and suffering. The desire to have a child in order to build a family offers few choices and is complicated by the unconscious family structure the couple bring to the family: the parental couple who should help to open up life for their sons and instead create difficulties for them.