Gender Identity and Sexual Psychopathology in Men: A Psychodynamic Analysis of Homosexuality, Transsexualism, and Transvestism

Remarques sur les origines de l’identité sexuelle

“…D'autres auteurs, comme Ovesey et Person (1973) entité dynamique, fonctionnelle et changeante. Orlofsky (1980) opte également pour la différen-ciation de ces deux facteurs ; il croit qu'un individu peut avoir un sens secure de soi et de son identité, sans nécessairement adopter les comportements ou les caractéristiques prescrites par la société pour chacun des deux sexes.…”

Male sexuality and power

“…Intense and persistent castration anxiety can be the end result of a number of different contingent factors. One important factor, beyond the scope of this paper, is the strong female identification seen in some men, usually as a result of early separation anxiety (see, e.g., Ovesey & Person, 1973). Once it has developed, it may serve as an inhibitory force (one sees here the various forms of sexual inhibitions) or it may serve as a stimulus to a variety of reactive solutions, among these the development of a macho sexuality.…”

Do Some Men Who Desire Sex Reassignment Have A Mental Disorder? Comment on Meyer-Bahlburg (2010)

“…Moreover, among adolescents and adults, a self-reported cross-gender identity is highly correlated with symptoms such as anatomic dysphoria, gender role dysphoria, and the desire for hormonal and surgical sex reassignment (Deogracias et al, 2007). Gender identity is, however, a slippery, imprecisely defined concept with a variety of possible meanings (Money, 1986;Ovesey & Person, 1973;Stoller, 1968). Significantly, Meyer-Bahlburg never attempted to define gender identity.…”

“…But gender identity can also denote one's current sense of oneself as being psychologically male, female, or of indeterminate sex (Money, 1986). Ovesey and Person (1973) distinguished between core gender identity and the later-developing type of cross-gender identity found in transsexuals and transvestites, which reflects ''an individual's self-evaluation of psychological maleness or femaleness''(p. 54). Nonhomosexual MtF transsexuals gradually develop cross-gender identities of this second type, which they experience as incongruent with their core gender identities (Stoller, 1968).…”