Abstract

PERELBERG, Rosine Jozef  and  BERLINER, Claudia. The multiplicity of sexual configurations. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2013, vol.47, n.3, pp. 103-110. ISSN 0486-641X.

Joyce McDougall states that human sexuality is traumatic in its origin, a trauma which is related to the acknowledgement of the difference between genders. The Oedipal configuration, whether in its homosexual or heterosexual dimension, confronts the individual with the impossibility of possessing both genders, as well as that of possessing his parents. This article suggests that the distinction between “murdered father” and “dead father” is crucial in the understanding of gender difference. The fantasy of “a beaten father” and its transformations appear in the analysis of certain male patients and express the appropriation of the dead father (symbolic father). Four clinical cases are described. The author formulates the hypothesis that some clinical cases show the incapacity to elaborate the loss of the symbolic father, and show erotization of this loss.

Keywords : dead father; murdered father; beaten father; primitive scene; foreclosure; primary fantasies; perversion; gender difference.

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