Homossexualidade em Winnicott: uma visão da homossexualidade à luz da teoria do amadurecimento humano

Abstract

This study arose from the need to adress questionings from a homosexual clientelle with regards to homosexual etiology, nature, patology and therapy. For such, a research was made of Winnicott's ideas so as to check how he conceived the homosexuallity phenomenon within the human maturation theory. A research was made of Winnicott's ideas regarding the establishment of selfidentity that leads to a later constitution of masculinity and feminility. During the progress of this research, it was possible to perceive the existing connection betwen the human maturation theory and the sexuality phenomenons. This is expressed by the need of inserting sexuality within the development. We can say that Winnicott, while theorizing over sexuality, ended by developing a homosexuality theory but, paradoxically, he developed a homosexuality theory that does not confines itself within sexuality, but rather within the identity theory. Winnicott enables us to say that a gender theory only makes sense if considered as a part of the self theory. Finally, a clinical case was used to elucidate Winnicott's ideas