In their process of subjectivation, some women seem to present a certain “difficulty” in having children. The continuous need to have a child (insatiable, because it is not directed toward what it expresses) is addressed toward medicine and occupies the place of the object of lack. The game of Having replaces that of Being and allows such women to remain in the position of passage, in a structure strongly marked by a fetishist trend, which occupies the demand for love addressed to the mother. Contrary to the Freudian position, where having a male child allows the woman to eventually resolve her Oedipus complex, our clinical material shows that, in these cases, the so-called “desire to have a baby” responds to a refusal to subjectivize the lack. This refusal to “become a woman” is manifest as a fetishist position.
Fetichism; female subjectivity; “Desire of have a baby”