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The title of this study suggests treating three terms, at first glance, without any link. Indeed, what might be the link between homosexuality and the Holy Scriptures? Or what might be the link between homosexuality and cognitive sciences? Finally, what relationship can be there between these three prima facie juxtaposed terms? There is an answer to each of these three questions, and we propose to explore such responses in this study. Our thesis lies in defending that the science and more precisely the cognitive sciences can contribute to the discussion on homosexuality in a theological (and/or ecclesial) discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article highlights the discursive construction and significance of homosexuality in the DSM IV system (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), understanding that the meaning referring to the internal contents of the discourse and signification concerns the external (visible) contents. The research method focuses on content analysis: discussion, critique and description of the manual's constructive methodology. The content analysis technique was applied; including identification of the dominant discourse and style. The results evidence that the dominant discursive shape is institutional regarding the non-discursive forms (sexuãlis diversus). No changes in the psychiatric discourse are evidenced, because of its circular feedback construction method; in other words, somewhere in the process, homosexuality will be considered as a disorder or as a topic of psychiatric revision. The research reveals that the DSM IV system adjusts to the power-knowledge discursive construction widely documented by Foucault, in which the dominant discourse exerts power over the sexuãlis diversus, defining them in an exercise of knowledge and registering them in a diagnostic manual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The identity and the human sexuality are a dialectic pair that runs through the analytical work. Sexuality both confronts us with the most enigmatic of the object and our own self, and allows us to greater intimacy with others and gives us the ineffable sense of being, throughout our lives, ourselves. In the analytic relationship, the sexuality is present in a disturbing way. The sexuality in the transfer is always unsettling, disruptive for the convenience of interpretations related to infantile dependence. The breakthrough, however expected to be, leaves us speechless and surprised. The sexuality never shows how or where we expect it. I will present clinical material that led me to think of this dialectic pair sexuality, identity, in their mutual determination, their disruption and confrontation, its very complex interdependence. The dialectical relationship between subjectivity and sexuality become more complex through vectors of interdependence and mutual determination, as well as infinite tension, disruption and mutual threats. As a result of a certain fear of the eroticism of the transference-countertransference's links, it seems that there becomes a des-libidinization of analytical links and thus, their sterility. The aim of the analyst is to understand the enigmatic, his psychosexuality is at the time of the analytical work, channeled and directed to understanding the mind of the patient. From that place of ethics, his sexed self enters in transference dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From the texts of the French explorers describing "berdaches", the paper tries to understand the way European cultures have conceived the native American transgender experiences. It shows, in particular, that the European labeling of these experiences (sodomite / hermaphrodite) is less due to a confusion in front of an unknown figure in the European cultures (a third gender), than to the recognition of the transgressive character of "berdaches", which reverse the hierarchy of gender. The American transgenders confronted Europeans with a problem less because they contravened the gender bi-partition or the "natural heterosexuality" but much more because they operated a reversal of prestige and power which was culturally unacceptable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The sample for this investigation consisted of 80 people: 37 were beginning their studies as superior technicians in policiology, 30 were finishing their studies in preventive policiology, and 13 were active elements of a police force who agreed to participate. All individuals were living in Aguascalientes, Mexico at the moment of the study, were 18 years old or older and were, mostly, men. The semantic networks method was used for the collection of data. Three words were give as stimuli: homosexual, transsexual, and transvestite. These future policemen refer to homosexual people using disrespectful words and associate immediately a transvestite or transsexual person with being gay. Participants associate homosexuality to an illness and transvestism to a job as well as to joy and fun. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]