Non-Essentialist Sexuality
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.72
**A NATURAL EXPERIMENT** > **An epistemological model: Psychoanalytic revision of "homosexuality"**
Theoretical move: By recuperating Freud's non-essentialist, polymorphous conception of sexuality — in which the drive is object-indifferent and homosexuality is merely a variation rather than a pathology — Gherovici argues that post-Freudian psychoanalysis's hetero-normative distortion should be corrected, and that this corrected Freudian framework ought to govern how psychoanalysis approaches transsexuality.
Freud created an outrage with his early sexual theories... with his non-essentialism in the definition of sexuality... Freud 'perverted' sexuality when he separated the drive from any instinctual function and described its object as 'indifferent.'