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Summaries : Homosexuality 2, spring 2001, 19, 1 |
PHILIPPE GUTTON : HOMOSEXUAL PROCESS AT PUBERTY
After having studied the discovery of the homosexuality of Mishima in The Confession
of a Masque, the author reviews the development of human sexuality in its
two stages. He then distinguishes the homosexuality, at puberty, involved in
the clinical process of breakdown and those he considers ordinary (or neurotic)
which especially engage his writing. He questions the theory of the experienced
complementarity of the sexes and studies the concept of contingency of the
partial and complete object. The genital choice has less to do with the erotic
than with mastery. The flexibility of pubertal transactions entwines homo and
heterosexuality in such a way that the author wonders if oneís subsequent
choice is determined by oneís capacity to integrate (either in a better or
worseÝ way) the sado-masochistic
investments. The theory is explained by clinical examples. It takes into
account the present day evolution of the ideas concerning sexual minorities
Key words : Homosexuality, Pubertal, Genital object, Mastery, Mishima.
JEAN BERGERET : ´ HOMOSEXUALITY OR ´ HOMOEROTISM ª
IN ADOLESCENCE ª
The notion of ´ homoerotism ª in adolescence since Ferenczi
corresponds to the passageby an intermediate stage, still narcissistic and aiming
at an object represented ideally in a specular and attractive way. This stage
ensures the integration of libidinal autoerotic satisfactions from the distant
past and a set of later narcissistic fixations (second chilhood period and
latence) at the heart of the libidinal current, truly sexual and object
oriented now, which thus, should organize, and in an ideally complete and
definitive way, the organizationalÝ
primacy of the adult personality.
One can therefore consider that only those subjects would be entitled to
a status of truly homosexual if they have benefitted from (at the mostÝ advanced moment of their affective
evolution, therefore after adolescence) , the possibility of reaching a level
of elaboration and overall organization of the personality both considered
under the genital primacy but which following subsequent severe affective
crises, would have undergone serious functional regressions, bringing them back
to a mode already gone beyond, to a narcissistic relation aimed at
representations of mirror likenesses.
The author then stresses three distinct varieties of homosexualis: of a
functional transitory nature, that involved in the narcissistic pathology and
finally that affirming a psychotic position.
Key words : Homosexuality, Homoerotism, Narcissistic current, Object current.
COLETTE CHILAND : TRANSSEXUALITY TRANSEXUALISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY AT
PUBERTY.
The author treats the question of the relation between homosexuality and
the problems of sexual identity at the turning point which marks puberty.
Homosexuality doesnít entail a refusal of the designated sex in the majority of
cases. The refusal of the designated sex is often accompanied by the attraction
for individuals of the same biological sex but that the subject doesnít
consider as homosexual. This attraction is the consequence of his ´ true
sex ª as opposed to his biological sex. The sexual practices of female
transsexuals towards males are different from those of female homosexuals ;
those of male transsexuals towards females are different from those of passive
male homosexuals.
At puberty, the refusal of the designated sex grows or is revealed ; it
is also at puberty that homosexuality takes on a more concrete form or appears,
although in both cases there are ´ later callings ª.
The etiology of transsexualism as well as that of homosexuality is
uncertain. One musnít hasten to label homosexual an adolescent who has
homosexual experiences or operate on an adolescent who expresses this desire.
Key words : Sexualized identity, Homosexuality, Transsexuality, Puberty.
SERGE LESOURD :
EMERGENCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY DURING ADOLESCENCE : ´ LES GENS DE LA
M»RE ª
In this article using a case study of female homosexuality, the author shows
how adolescent homosexuality, especially female homosexuality which has puzzled
psychoanalysis, can be understood as one of the normal paths leading to the
encounter of bodily pleasure during the sexual act in the pubertal period. That
leads one to ask questions about the effects of social discourse on the
adolescent passage, and consequently on the place granted, in modern and post
modern times to acted upon homosexuality and not sublimated homosexuality that
Freud wrote about, as one of the possible forms of the social bond.
Key words : Female homosexuality, Acted upon homosexuality, Bodily pleasure,
Bond.
DANIEL MARCELLI : PRIMARY NARCISSISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY IN
ADOLESCENCE
The adolescent regularly shifts between the necessity of self identification
and the need for self differentiation : homophilia is set, because of this
fact, at the core ofÝ this process of
adolescence, as we are first reminded. Between homophilia and the
´ question of homosexuality ª the limit is certainly often slight,
with the consultant and his patient constanly being confronted by the patientís
diverse variations of a homosexuality whether it be narcissistic, neurotic,
perverse, fear of abandonment, etc.
This article focuses more precisely on the narcissistic component of homosexuality,
considering the early mother infant relationship and attemps to distinguish the
situation of the boy from that of the girl.
Several clinical cases are used as illustrations.
Key Words : Homosexuality, Narcissism, Homophilia, Early interaction.
CLAUDE SAVINAUD : HAVING A FATHER
One of the aspects of homosexuality in adolescenceÝ turns on the axis of the relation to the
grandiose father. This alienating representations blocks the subject in a
masochist submission leading to infantile auto-erotism. The newness of the
arrival of puberty is thwarted in its oedipal expectations : avoidance of
castration, the lessening of the symbolic image of the father in games of
phallic seduction of the negative Oedipus complex. We offer the hypothesis of
an impulse investment of a ´ maternel father ª, taking care of the
distress of the adolescent, neglected by the mother, by seducting him.
Key-words : Narcissism, Homosexuality, Grandiosity.
CHRISTIAN SEULIN : MODIFICATIONS OF THE PHALLIC SYMBOL IN
ADOLESCENCE
The adolescent subject is confronted with the integration of his genital
sexual identity and his future adulthood among other adults. These changes do
not occur without reorganization of the phallic symbol, sign of narcissistic
completness with the corporal supports referring to the total body and the
penis. At the same time as the evolution of the phallic symbol, a revision of
the ideals which are associated with it, are being reworked. The difficulties
encountered are accompanied by defensive movements, homoerotic in particular,
liable to be fixated. The models of identification offered to the young subject
by adults have an important influence on his future.
Key words : Genitality, Phallic Symbol, Identification, Homoerotisme,
Narcissism.
JEAN-BERNARD CHAPELIER : HOMOSEXUALITY, HOMOPHILIA AND THE FANTASY
OF AUTO-ENGENDERING
The fantasy of auto-engendering ( which takes into account and gives
meaning to the appearance of mature genital sexuality) contributes to giving up
the libidinal (sexualized) family investment of the oedipal type
(trans-generational) in favor of a sexual investment of the homo generational
type. This process of the passage from the family to the social group (of
peers) is complex and calls forth varied fantasies in the form of scenes
(pubertal, pedophilic, sadomasochistic...) which refer to the internal
groups.The fantasy of auto-engendering, denies, at the same time, castration,
the primal scene, the difference between the sexes but it develops temporarily
what we call homophilia. In this context, homosexuality can be thought of as an
avatar of this badly worked through homophilia. To defend this position
clinical material (individual and group ) is referred to as well as initiation
practices.
Key words : Auto-engendering, Peer groups, Homophilia, Homosexuality.
MARIE CHRISTINE AUBRAY :
SABINE
The impassioned movements of transference are illustrated by the
presentation of a cure of an adolescent girl suffering from spina-bifida.
Hate of her pubertal body, fear of not feeling loved, badly experienced
secondary identifications are condensed into an impassioned transference as an
image of a femininity aspired by homosexuality, between rejection and
idealization.
Key words : Impassioned transference, femininity, homosexuality, handicap.
ANDRE BROUSSELLE : IMPASSIONED MOVEMENTS AND IMPASSIONED
TRANSFERENCE PSYCHOSES
The study of the case of M.C.Aubray since the vertex of impassioned
transference psychoses have enabled us to emphasize the denial of
heterosexuality through the incandescent focussing on the affect, that of the
monstrous part of the body, the emmeshing of the Oedipus Complex and the
archaic. The question ´ does analysis kindle or extinguish passions? ª
in adolescents is reviewed.
Key words : Erotomania, Impassioned transference psychoses.
Mr V. was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and we met him in the
context of an open consultation in the department which receives patients with
corporal complaints, whatever the diagnosis. The overwhelming event in
Mr Vís life ( his first name means life in FRENCH), stems from a dentistís
root canal operation on his healthy teeth. In the aftermath of this shattering
event, an encounter with a man during the same year that Mr V became the
father of a son, his words led us in the direction of what could have
engendered the psychic conflict and caused the failure of his repression of a
homosexuality that the subject could neither represent or integrate. His
homosexual passion, unknown and repressed, had led him to a physical and
psychic decline as well as to catastrophic complaints contributing to an
impasse in a life, up to that moment, without problems. In the staging of his
words, the events of the encounter took on a sense, informing him about the
homosexuality evoked by paternal words and the failure of his repression.
Key words : Erotomania, Hate, Homosexuality, Passion, Paternity, Encounter.
ANNA VICTOI : EXTREME FEMININITY-ORPHEUS AND THE MAGIC THEATRE
This article explains one of the objects of study of the author; the
homosexual process of psychic development.
Such a process includes the double of the self, the primary and
preoedipal homosexualities as well as the construction of the fantasy
´ the female relation with the father ª in adolescence (oedipal
homosexuality). A clinical example (the extreme femininity of a 15 year old
adolescent) illustrates the reflection on the construction and the continuity
of the homosexuel process.
Key words : Femininity, Homosexual process, Homosexual transfer, Identity.
FRAN«OIS POMMIER : FROM PARENTAL PASSION TO NASCENT HOMOSEXUALITY
The comparison of clinical situations of two men having relations of a
homosexual type in adolescence leads oneÝ
to comprehendÝ nascent
homosexuality in relation to the disarray of the adolescent confronted with the
language of parental passion. It results from this study, that if the
homosexual act in adolescense consists of seeking another self mirrored outside
the self, it is essentially as a function of the image of the parents merged
into one that constitutes this act. The homosexual relationship in adolescence
might not beÝ built so much on following
a process of similarity, as in organizing itself around a confrontation with
another, different from himself and essentially enigmatic.
Key Words : Homosexuality, Passion, Identification, Narcissism.
ALIX BERNARD : THE CHOICE OF THE HOMOSEXUAL OBJECT AND BELONGING TO
THE DEAF COMMUNITY
Several observations collected during research conducted on the sexual
behavior of deaf subjects confronted with AIDS, emphasize the frequency of
partners with normal hearing chosen by deaf homosexuals. By using the thorough
analysis of the speech of a young deaf homosexual man we will see how this
object choiceÝ can be considered as a
stage in the work adolescens and understand it as a homoerotic initiation which
restores a phallic mirror image.
Key words : Deaf, Homosexual, Homoerotism, Phallic narcissism, Self-Esteem.
PHILIPPE PIERRE TŠDO : A DIRECTED ABUSIVE EXPERIENCE
The author explains the pathway of an adolescent heavily invested in a
impassioned homosexual relation.When he was persuaded that he was betrayed, he
attempted suicide and was rapidly hospÓtalized.
The elaboration around that moment of crisis led him under the sign of
the transfer, to especially question his traumatic infantile experience
reorganized during puberty. The work took him towards the identity quest
regarding projective and destructive patental figures. The abusive prepubertal
sexual experience, in its dimension of criminal reality, came up to intensify
an early abusive experience that he attempted to reconstruct. Faced with the
scope of the work to accomplish, he chose to leave theÝ couchÝ
to hasten towards repetition, to behaviours organized in a perverse
manner, which questioned the future of this boy on a psychopathological plan.
Key words : Homosexual preoccupations, Suicidal preoccupations, Directed abusive
experiences, Destructive parental projection, Perverse organization.
LUDOVIC GADEAU : FIGURE OF FATHERíS AFFECTATION DURING ADOLESCENCE
The author analyses a process through which the
question of father is modified in adolescence. This process, named affectation of father, must be
understood through its articulations with the ådipus complex, and concerns the
contingent father as much as the adolescent. The position of fatherÝ (symbolical position) is normally supported
by two complementary levels : an institutional dimension and a subjective
dimension. The emphasis is placed on subjective appropriation of the question
of the father-being in adolescent
process. Two paradigmatic figures ñ the
sacrifice of Isaac, Noah and his sons ñ give us examples of the
affectation of father, through which the author studies the basic components of
the subjective appropriation of father-being.
Key-words : Father,
Affectation of father, ådipus complex, The sacrifice of Isaac, Noah.
CATHERINE TERNYNCK : CLINICAL STUDY OF FEMALE HOMOSEXUALITY IN
ADOLESCENCE
Could certain female homosexual encounters have a dimension which
provide structure ? Could they help certain young girls to extricate themselves
from erotic bonds which were maintained with their mothers for narcissistic
purposes ? Could they have a leverage effect, of turning again towards
heterosexuality ? In this case, how can we explain that in their internal
organization, certain adolescents resort to such a solution while others
involved in the same psychic work, seem able to do without it ?
This
article tries to bring out a dynamic common to the most diverse homosexual
movements, from the most ordinary to the most pathological during female adolescence.
Thus it envisages a homosexual transitional passage, a space of experience
enabling an elaborative resumption of the separation and an introjectiveÝ renewalÝ
of the feminine qualities of the mother.
Key words : Female homosexuality, Adolescent homosexuality, Process of
feminisation, Homosexual transitional passage.
MICHEL FIZE : HOMOSEXUALITY IN THE 11-15 YEAR OLDS
Partially liberated in adult discourse, homosexuality continues to be
stigmatized in the world of young males, in so far as it reflects that part of
feminity unbearable at the age of virility. It signifies how much the discovery
of such a sexual orientation in adolescents of 11-15 years old remains a trial
to overcome.
Key words : Homosexuality, Suffering, Adolescence, Intolerence.
franklin rausky : A CASE OF A DIVIDED
ADOLESCENT : A MULTIPLE PERSONNALITY DISORDER AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 19
th CENTURY
The case of Julie, a German young girl int he begining of XIXth
century : the first chronicle,written in a clinical style,of a syndrom of
multiple personality of an adolescent, with an ordinary personality,three
alternatingÝ personalities and
psychological phoenomena : post-hypnotical amnesia, Out-of-Body Experience
(OBE), mystical preachings in transe - state and endoscopic
hallucinations.
Key-words : Multiple
personality, Somnambulism, Mesmerism, Hypnosis, Post-hypnotical amnesia.
MARCEL HOUSER : A DOUBTFUL BEAUTY OR THE ADOLESCENCE IN QUESTION
Itís a question of a view point, not without a certain seriousness, of
the emotional relations held among the principal characters directed by Sam
Mendes, in his film entitled American
Beauty and in particular, the emotional drama experienced by the
adolescents who find themselves in the center of the action.The latter, their
identity shifted about, among the adults in proximity, who are first of all,
their parents, seem to the author, to be screaming with a very contemporary
truth.
The clearly pregenital nature of the pseudo-sexual relations engaged in
by some of the characters, seems quite obvious here. And it seems clear that
the mirror aspect of the relations experienced correspond above all, to an
erotisation of an essentially narcissitic and phallic nature, therefore of
defensive auto and homo erotisms, much more than of an authentic sexualisation.
The study concludes with a brief theoretic review of the main
difficulties encountered by all adolescents worldwide, and probably of all
time, even if different societies, inevitably changing in the course of history
can lead to apparently specific forms of expression.
Key Words : American beauty, Pseudo-sexualities.
FLORENCE GOLDBERG : GUSHING VISIONS OF THE PUBERTAL SCENE
This article emphasizes the experience of the emergence of homosexuality
during adolescence for writers such as Yukio Mishima and HervÈ Guibert and
their accounts of it. From the beginning it seems to be a fantasy enactment of
the pubertal scene, mixing incest, abjection and the fascination for horror.
This text questions the outcome of the pubertal scene and the importance of the
drives activated by a sensory and perceptive intensity, that these two writers
bring into the foreground throughout their autobiographic writing. Moreover,
the article suggests that we distinguish between what is the order of
perversion and more precisely the question of a perverse construction.
Key words :
Pubertal violence, Hyperesthesia, Abject, Perversion.
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