Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in the Hypermodern Era: the Role of Delegation and Self-affirmation in Subjectivisation
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When we talk about sexual identities, therapists usually have in mind a set of theories that inevitably combine the unspoken heterosexist assumptions of our western culture. This article aims to highlight how these automatic assumptions permeate some of the established constructs that have long been considered the fundamentals of psychoanalytic theory, leaving contemporary psychoanalysts in Italy with no key to a critical interpretation of sexual identities. Taking Michele Minolli's Ego-subject theory, we propose, as a possible starting point, to shift our attention away from the historical to go to the meta-theoretical level, taking care not to slide into the antithetical but equally ideological positions which characterize the current debate.
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