Abstract

LOPES, Anchyses Jobim. The film Tomboy and transsexualities – Gender and sex, the hyper complex and the simple. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2024, n.61, pp.31-37.  Epub June 09, 2025. ISSN 0100-3437.  https://doi.org/10.5935/2175-3482.n61a03.

Tomboy, French film from 2011. The main character is a 10-year-old girl who, together with her family – mother, father and a 6-year-old sister – moves to a new home. The protagonist dresses masculine asks for her room to be painted blue and has greater companionship with her father than her mother. She/he decides to leave his new apartment and make friends. First he finds a slightly older girl, already at the beginning of puberty, who introduces her to a group of children, preferably boys. But instead of using her real, feminine name, she starts to introduce herself with a male name. Until at the end her real name and gender are discovered. From this plot, three aspects are focused: Sigmund Freud in his articles on feminine and femininity, and the implicit separation between sex – binary – and gender – a continuum, always presenting new forms, therefore a complex system. Edgar Morin, contemporary thinker on complexity, defending the difference between simple and complex systems. Conceptualizing those neurons with an estimate of a quadrillion synapses and human groupings of millions of people, forming an immeasurable number of social relationships, form complex systems, also called by some author’s hyper complex. And Gina Rippon, a British neuroscientist, who argues that there are currently no differences between the two sexes in terms of neuronal and brain development in childhood. And a return to psychoanalysis, which, as it does not work with simple causes and effects, but with general principles, which unfold infinitely in theory and clinical practice, is also a hyper complex system.

Keywords : Gender; Transsexualities; Complexity; Neuroscience.

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