Teorizar, repetir e patologizar: a leitura psicanalítica sobre as homossexualidades e transexualidades.

This work aims to localize the intertwining of common or repeated elements in psychoanalytic theorizations about homosexuality and transsexuality. By characterizing psychoanalytic discourses from Freud and Lacan to our days, we find a kind of repetition in these theorizations, since homosexuality has historically been associated to a choice of narcissistic object and perversion, a fact that is repeated nowadays in postulations about transsexualities, which are described as psychosis and perversion. We conclude that a large number of psychoanalytic texts are linked, intertwined and informed by repeating theories such as the thesis of psychic hermaphroditism that serves as the etiological basis for both homosexualities and transsexualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]