Volume 33, Issue 1, 2024
DOI: 10.53555/03276716.2024.04
Female Sexuality In Clinical Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy
Abstract
Objective: The purpose of this review theoretical was to examine female sexuality in the context of clinical psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Method: This is a qualitative and hermeneutic review of research that describes the transformation of a woman's psyche from childhood to adulthood using clinical components of psychotherapy. Results: The first sexual object in childhood, regardless of sex, is the mother's breast. Compared to boys, girls experienced the Oedipus conflict at a different time, in relation to the maternal object, since they initially rejected castration. After accepting the sexual anatomical differences later, the girls accept the castration considering the father as the object of desire or Oedipus positive, healthy and normal in most women. They find suitable ways to liberate themselves by positively identifying with their mother, reducing incestuous desires for their father, and acquiring feminine sexual characteristics. The erogenous zone eventually moves to the vagina, allowing women to have partner genital intercourse in the future. The second sexual awakening during puberty, adolescence and adulthood highlights the intensity or failures of the Oedipus conflict and its resolution, with a healthy or pathological male-female relationship. Contemporary analysis describes the havoc- a phenomenon present during the daughter's adolescence that distances her from her mother- erotic encounters, marriages and pregnancies persist. Conclusion: The woman's psyche, in addition to the Oedipus conflict, includes unconscious and conscious components, a complex functional capacity related to femininity, desire and love.
Keywords
Female Sexuality, Clinical Psychoanalysis, Oedipus, Ravage, Psychotherapy.