I am putting one thought out here...Food for thought
I am wondering
Are the psychoanalytic concepts of identification and internalization lost in the presentation of this symptom...the trans phenomenon
The ideas describing the "psychological work" individuals undergo, of internalization and identification, assume that it is part of human development that we form identifications with BOTH same sex and opposite sex people ( parents and other people in the child's and later the adult's life). These identifications and internalized experiences and people are to be metabolized and unified inside the personality of the individual, creating and shaping the unique identity of that particular personl.
The concreteness of this trans gender phenom and the demand to be called "they" by others seems to be a failure of mental integration .... The processes of.identification/internalization which were described in psychoanalytic literature as internal processes are now on the surface not intergrated but displayed and enacted.
And even the portrayal of the opposite sex adopted by the trans person often have a cliched or stereotyped quality in the presentation of what feminine or masculine should look like.
I am putting one thought out here...Food for thought
I am wondering
Are the psychoanalytic concepts of identification and internalization lost in the presentation of this symptom...the trans phenomenon
The ideas describing the "psychological work" individuals undergo, of internalization and identification, assume that it is part of human development that we form identifications with BOTH same sex and opposite sex people ( parents and other people in the child's and later the adult's life). These identifications and internalized experiences and people are to be metabolized and unified inside the personality of the individual, creating and shaping the unique identity of that particular personl.
The concreteness of this trans gender phenom and the demand to be called "they" by others seems to be a failure of mental integration .... The processes of.identification/internalization which were described in psychoanalytic literature as internal processes are now on the surface not intergrated but displayed and enacted.
And even the portrayal of the opposite sex adopted by the trans person often have a cliched or stereotyped quality in the presentation of what feminine or masculine should look like.