Abstract

MOREIRA, Euza Aparecida da Silva  and  MARCOS, Cristina Moreira. Brief history on transsexuality. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2019, vol.25, n.2, pp.593-609. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2019v25n2p593-609.

This study aimed to investigate the phenomenon of transsexuality through historical records on the manifestations of sexuality at different times, and how these were explained in a naturalistic way. We seek to study how sex and gender were conceived in the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, and how the scientific discourses came, in turn, to order and specify what was proper to the masculine and the feminine. We intend to investigate how the improvement of surgical and hormonal techniques have contributed to elevate transsexuality to the category of social phenomenon. We present the Queer studies in order to understand how one understands the constitution of identities within a social structure. We also discuss Judith Butler’s position on the sex and gender constructs based on the binary categories. Finally, we demonstrate how the concept of gender was introduced and approached in psychoanalysis through the psychoanalyst/psychiatrist Robert Stoller.

Keywords : Transsexuality; Sexuality; Queer theory; Robert Stoller.

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