Emotional development in transsexuality: from the pathologizing rupture to the nuance of creation and subjective truth

Abstract

Transsexuality is a phenomenon that goes beyond the mechanical barrier of being and existing, especially with regard to sexuality and gender.Much discussed in the international literature, whether from a biological, medical or human science perspective, it scales the importance of physical and mental care to promote quality of life. This article intended to understand the aspects related to emotional development in transsexuality. For this, it analyzed the experience of the first Brazilian transsexual, João Nery, through the psychoanalysis of a post-winnicottian paradigm. João Nery's lived world is an arduous journey in search of himself. Their dilemmas, conflicts, desires, dreams, passions, sufferings, struggles and joys reveal a spontaneous attitude towards sexual and gender identity. The transsexuality understood here presents horizons of availability to the creation, of original nuances and the rupture with the solid structures of cishetonormativity. In the trans horizon, with a subjective bias, from thepathologizing rupture to the nuance of creation, transidentity can represent a subjective, creative process, in search of the constitution of the true self.