Don't You See a Girl-Boy?

By Brigitte Allain-Dupré
English

Referring to some moments of the psychotherapy of a four-years-old girl, the author wants to put to the fore how the integration of the patient’s sexual identity feeling have been built with the support of the image of the Hermaphrodite archetype. The Hermaphrodite archetype conducted in her the quest of the narcissic wholeness which allowed the acknowledgment of her sexual identity in the sexes’ and generations’ difference. In this ‘mise en corps’ (putting into body) through the transference relationship, the transformations of the Hermaphrodite archetype occurred, making the developmental components of the oedipical triangulation emerge.

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