Vergonha e definição do sexo: um estudo psicanalítico

Abstract

The presente study came up from patients from a clinic that holds Disorders of Sex Development (DSD), in a genetic condition that involves inquiries around sex definition either through the ambiguous genitalia or through the secondary sexual characters that don´t correspond to the expected patterns of a boy or a girl. From the psychoanalysis point of view, the sex definition goes beyond the anatomical distinction, in case of a subjective assumption that occurs with all and any individual. It is a psychoanalysis academic research according to the Freudian theory, that purposes to analyze the embarrassment, considering its occurrence and its effects, especially when related to sex definition. It uses as a method, the case study in Herculine Babin. Therefore it researches about sex definition including the DDS considerations and the body; it debates the conception of embarrassment in Freud´s literary work as it expands the discussion among contemporary authors, those who submit the embarrassment as to an affection´s that manages the social bonds and owns a narcissistic characteristic once it is about a tension between the me and the ideal me. I accomplished from the case analysis of Herculine Barbin this relation between the embarrassment and the sex definition related to aspects as: the puberty transformations, the secret and the ideal about the me.