B. Callieri, L. Abbate - Vol. 5, Dicembre 1999, num.4
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Transessualismo maschile. Aspetti
psicodinamici e fenomenologici
Male transsexualism. Psychodynamic and phenomenological aspects
This paper presents a review of psychodynamic and phenomenological approach of male transsexualism. The position of Stoller, who views transsexualism as the concomitant of a primary, nonconflittual and nonpatological cross-gender identity brought about in a male by a particular set of family dinamics, is disputed. The experience of body from the phenomenological viewpoint; the position of psychoanalys about a disturbance in genital symbolisation; the lacanian metaphor of father and its relationship with the phallus; the jungian arhetype of the mother, are the possible key to understand the choice, in male transsexual, to change the body with surgical operation in order to become a female. Some ethic considerations are proposed.