Contro le donne. Diventare maschi in un caso di perversione sessuale

Autore: Giovanni Starace
In: Genesis. II/2, 2003
doi:10.1400/78269
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Abstract

Against women. On becoming male in a case of sexual perversion
This essay argues that in order to make a proper analysis of how gender identity is constructed, it is necessary to go beyond a purely organistic perspective, and pursue a line of enquiry which can produce a definition of gender in predominantly psychological terms. A theoretical approach is outlined which sees male identity as closely related to female identity, beginning with the primary symbiotic relationship with the mother. If this relationship fails to develop properly, it is impossible for a healthy male identity to be constructed, and the relationship can actually produce behaviour which is damaging to female figures in the vicinity. To illustrate the way in which these problems unfold, a case of sexual perversion is described which maps out the progress of this difficult relationship with the female element, and the consequences that this has in the construction of gender identity. A recognition of an original dependence on the female, without which there would have been no psychic life, is the keystone for a healthy male gender identity.