Despatologizando a diversidade de gênero:uma revisão bibliográfica da Transexualidade e Psicanálise

Abstract

Historically,transsexualityhasgonethroughdifferentdebatesandconceptsthathavebeen constructedandresignifieduntilthepresentday,inwhichitisseenasthenon-agreement betweentheassignedbiologicalsexandgender.Psychoanalytictheorycansharplyilluminate dysfunctions incoregender identity that stemfromconflicts that occur during the separation-individuationphaseandproduceambiguities.Thisisaliteraturereviewthataims to investigatewhat hasbeendevelopedanddiscussedabout transsexuality fromthe perspectiveofPsychoanalysisduringthelasttenyears.Forthis,anelectronicsearchwas performedintheLilacsandSciElodatabases,usingthedescriptors“Transsexuality”and “Psicanálise”containingtheBooleanANDoperator.Atotalof27studieswerefound,of which11wereselectedforthefinalanalysisbasedontheinclusioncriteria:textspublishedin Portugueseinthelasttenyearsthatareattachedtotheaforementioneddatabases,andthe exclusioncriteria:textsthatdidnotcontainthedescriptorsusedintheresearch,initstitle, abstract or keywords, and that didnot address the issueof transsexuality froma psychoanalyticalperspective.Theresultsshowedaprevalenceofcriticalstudiesaboutthe conceptsofPsychoanalysisandpathologizingapproachestotranssexuality.Itconcludesthat thereisaneedforabetterunderstandingoranexpansionofdiscussionsonpsychoanalytic theorywith regard toFreud's concept of humansexualitypresenting itself asbeing polymorphousperverse.Italsoemphasizestheneedtorespecttheclinicaluniquenessandan actionthatallowsthesubjecttotalkabouthimselfandhisreality.