Abstract

HELSINGER, Natasha Mello. The culture of gender melancholy as Oedipus' blind spot: the imperative of heterosexualityand sexual binarism in psychoanalysis. Cad. psicanal. [online]. 2021, vol.43, n.45, pp. 83-113. ISSN 1413-6295.

Considering the 100 years since the publication of the text Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, in which Freud focuses the problem of identification, it seems essential to rethink this concept in the light of gender normativity, even so that we can embrace sexual diversity and gender in a non-normative way. Starting from the premise that social psychology and individual psychology are inseparable, we will discuss how the constitution of gender identity is marked by the imperative of heterosexuality and sexual binarism. Therefore, we will work on Butler's hypothesis about gender melancholy, in which she argues that the taboo of homosexuality precedes and conditions the incest taboo, which involves a heterosexualization of desire.

Keywords : Gendermelancholy; Taboo of homosexuality; Compulsory heterosexuality; Gender normativity; Identification; Oedipus.

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