Infertility is the cause of psychic suffering for many women, since human reproduction aims at the perpetuation of living beings. This article discusses the so-called new reproductive technologies and studies the impacts that infertility has on the psychism and on the condition of the subject. It seeks to dissociate the conscious demand of having a child from an unconscious desire that may operate in the subject's production, thus causing symptoms. It also questions the difference between that desire to have a child and the desire for motherhood and its implications in articulating the drives.
Infertility; assisted human reproduction; femininity; desire