Resumen

MONTEIRO, Marli Piva. Transamerica: on the crossroads to sexuation. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2009, n.32, pp.111-116. ISSN 0100-3437.

The conflicts involved in the decision of a transexual between his decision to submit to a surgery to change sex or taking care of a son is focused in this work. The differential diagnosis and the problems concerning the surgery are considered on a psychoanalitic point of view with the background of the film Transamerica.

Palabras clave : Transsexualism; Travestism; Homosexualism; Name-of-the-father; Penis; Castration; Phallus.