O transexualismo como suplência na psicose

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the psychotic subject who is confident to be a woman, can turn transsexualism into a means of supplementing that can reduce physical and psychological dissociation while existing as a woman in the social field. Our method is to compare the outcome of the "push-to-woman" delirious paranoid metamorphosis with the development of which it is the object in transsexualism. Our results show that these two distinct clinical situations are based on common issues, such as regulating the excess of unbounded enjoyment by the phallic function. The discussion shows that transsexualism is distinct from delusion by making the female exception the issue that articulates the imaginary and symbolic dimensions. In conclusion, transsexualism regulates the "push-to-woman" process and allows the subject to build a new identity that encompasses enjoyment of the body and gives it a name.