Homosexuality and psychoanalysis [Druid study]

Homosexuality and psychoanalysis [Druid study] What is homosexuality The first thing you need to keep in mind is that homosexuality is not an option (so it is incorrect to say "sexual option") and, furthermore, it is not a pathology and cannot - and should not - be treated. Resolution No. 01/1999 makes it clear that sexuality is part of each person's identity and, therefore, homosexual practices are not a disease or disorder. Before we talk about how a psychologist can help you with self-acceptance, it is important that you know that professionals do not see you differently from other patients and will not use “conversion therapy”. Homosexuality, for Freud, is not any kind of "deviation" from behavior or illness. For the father of psychoanalysis, all human beings are originally bisexual, and "psychoanalysis allows us to point to a trace or another of a homosexual choice in all individuals". Homosexuality is far more common and natural than conservatives might suspect. In the article The Schreber Case, Freud states that “in general, every human being oscillates, throughout life, between heterosexual and homosexual feelings.” It is important that we know how to respect differences. We begin this article with this statement since it is essential that we keep it in mind when dealing with homosexuality. It matters little what opinion we have on the matter. It is important that we know how to respect a person's choices about how he chose to live. In this context, it is possible to see that homosexuality is a subject that is receiving more and more attention. People are having more space to take up their sexual orientation and defend it. In fact, we know that currently many families are already composed of same-sex couples. Homosexuality for Freud First, it is important to note that Freud did not believe that homosexuality was a disease. You can see this in the letter he wrote in response to a mother who was concerned about her gay son. According to the father of psychoanalysis, there would be no reason for her to be ashamed of her son's homosexuality or to consider it an addiction or a degradation. Homosexuality is still taboo for society, but for psychology it is not. Today, psychotherapy can even play an important role in helping self-knowledge and, mainly, self-acceptance of homosexual people. The “accepting yourself”, in fact, is the most important step to live a peaceful life in relation to sexual orientation. Gay cure It is then possible to establish a relationship between this Freudian statement and the idea of ​​"gay cure". If the Austrian doctor did not consider homosexuals to be ill, it means that he would find no justification for performing sexual reversal therapies. C.G. Jung There is no single text by Jung on the topic. Although we cannot directly address the issue of homosexuality, we will also find the embryo of his theory about the anima (the feminine part of the man's soul) and the animus (the masculine part of the woman's soul). In the Red Book, which I study for my doctorate, he writes on December 28, 1913: “… The person is masculine and feminine, not just a man or just a woman. You cannot tell your soul what kind it is. But if you pay close attention, you will see that the most masculine man has a feminine soul, and that the most feminine woman has a masculine soul. The more a man you are, the more removed you are from what the woman really is, because the feminine in yourself is strange and despicable ”(JUNG, 2010, 263). Opposites and psychic symbols In alchemy, whose symbolism Jung studied extensively in his latest works, there is always the opposition between two poles and, of course, there is the opposition, the polarity between sexual elements. At the beginning of the Mysterium Coniunctionis, Jung writes: “The factors that come together in the coniunctio are considered as opposites, that are opposed as enemies or are attracted lovingly to each other. Conclusion As Professor Walter Migliorini would say, Jung's tendency is to write in a circumabulatory way, that is, we find the theme that we are studying in a work that has no direct relation to the studied theme. Well, this is just an introductory text to what we can study about homosexuality in the work of C. G. Jung. In this sense, it is also a circumabulatory text. As an indication of reading, I leave the second chapter of Robert Hopcke's book: Jung, Jungians and homosexuality. In this chapter, there is a detailed description of Jung's concepts in its three main phases: psychoanalytic, analytical psychology and “mature” phase. From Brasil to the world, Paulo César Ebano Moreira Sources: https://psicologosvilaolimpia.com.br/psicologia/homossexualidade-autoaceitacao/ https://www.psicologiamsn.com/2014/07/homossexualidade-para-c-g-jung.html https://www.psicanaliseclinica.com/homosexuality/